BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: April 9, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
ACR 100 (Bonnie Lowenthal) - As Amended: March 27, 2012
SUBJECT : State Routes 5, 10, 101, 129, and 710
SUMMARY : Designates segments of State Routes (SR) 5, 10, 101,
129, and 710 in honor of various individuals or groups.
Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the lives and careers of various deceased individuals
who made significant contributions to their respective
communities.
2)Describes the history of the Ohlone Costanoan people of the
Pajaro Valley.
3)Designates specified state highway segments in honor of those
deceased persons as well as the Ohlone Costanoan people.
4)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to
determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the
signing requirements for the state highway system showing
these special designations and, upon receiving donations from
nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those
signs.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility to operate
and maintain state highways. This includes the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : The Legislature has traditionally named various
transportation facilities in honor of leading community figures
via concurrent resolutions. Per Committee policy, the
resolutions must be carried or coauthored by a member
representing the area where the facility is located, the honoree
must either be deceased or be a retired elected official, there
must be community consensus regarding the designation, and any
signage must be installed at no cost to the state. In recent
years, the naming of facilities has become far more commonplace
than in the past.
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This Committee last year considered, and rejected, a proposal to
place a temporary moratorium on such resolutions. Among the
reasons for that proposal was the increasing amount of
legislative effort necessary to process so many resolutions. As
a means of addressing this situation, the Committee chair and
vice chair have this year jointly authored ACR 100 with the hope
that any member wishing to author a highway-naming resolution
will instead agree to join as a coauthor of this bill and have
their desired designation added to it by way of amendment.
Along those lines, several members have requested to have
facility namings in their districts that are included in this
bill. The bill now names a bicycle path on the Gerald Desmond
Bridge (SR 710) in memory of Mark Bixby (requested by
Chairperson Lowenthal), a segment of SR 10 in memory of Alhambra
Police Officer Ryan Stringer (requested by Mr. Eng), a segment
of SR 5 in memory of Oceanside Police Officer Daniel Bessant
(requested by Ms. Harkey), a segment of SR 129 as the Ohlone
Costanoan Highway (requested by Mr. Alejo), and a segment of SR
101 in memory of Los Angeles Police Officer Ian Campbell
(requested by Mr. Feuer).
Related legislation : AB 1645 (Norby) would transfer the
responsibility for highway namings from the Legislature to the
California Transportation Commission. ACR 117 (Achadjian) would
name the SR 46/101 interchange after a fallen California Highway
Patrol Officer. Both of these bills are on today's Committee
agenda.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
City of Long Beach
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093
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