BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
ACR 100 (Bonnie Lowenthal and Jeffries)
As Amended March 27, 2012
Majority vote
TRANSPORTATION 13-1 APPROPRIATIONS 16-1
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|Ayes:|Bonnie Lowenthal, |Ayes:|Fuentes, Harkey, |
| |Jeffries, Achadjian, | |Blumenfield, Bradford, |
| |Blumenfield, Bonilla, | |Charles Calderon, Campos, |
| |Buchanan, Eng, Furutani, | |Davis, Donnelly, Gatto, |
| |Galgiani, Logue, Miller, | |Hall, Hill, Lara, |
| |Portantino, Solorio | |Mitchell, Nielsen, |
| | | |Solorio, Wagner |
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|Nays:|Norby |Nays:|Norby |
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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 California 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.
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FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee analysis, minor State Highway Account costs to
Caltrans that are covered by donations.
COMMENTS : The Legislature has traditionally named various
transportation facilities in honor of leading community figures
via concurrent resolutions. Per the Assembly Transportation
Committee's 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.
The Assembly Transportation 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
Assembly Transportation Committee's chair and vice chair have
this year jointly authored this resolution with the hope that
any member wishing to author a highway-naming resolution will
instead agree to join as a coauthor 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 Bonnie Lowenthal), a segment of SR 10 in memory of
Alhambra Police Officer Ryan Stringer (requested by Assembly
Member Eng), a segment of SR 5 in memory of Oceanside Police
Officer Daniel Bessant (requested by Assembly Member Harkey), a
segment of SR 129 as the Ohlone Costanoan Highway (requested by
Assembly Member Alejo), and a segment of SR 101 in memory of Los
Angeles Police Officer Ian Campbell (requested by Assembly
Member Feuer).
Related legislation: AB 1645 (Norby) would have transferred the
responsibility for highway namings from the Legislature to the
California Transportation Commission. That bill failed passage
in the Assembly Transportation Committee. ACR 117 (Achadjian)
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would name the SR 46 and 101 interchange after a fallen
California Highway Patrol Officer. That bill is currently on
the Assembly Floor.
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093
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