BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
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As Amended August 14, 2012
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |67-1 |(April 23, |SENATE: |39-0 |(August 20, |
| | |2012) | | |2012) |
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Original Committee Reference: TRANS .
SUMMARY : Designates segments of State Routes (SR) 5, 10, 12,
40, 50, 74, 80, 86, 99, 101, 129, 198, 222, 280, 405, 680, 710,
and 888 in honor of various individuals or groups.
The Senate amendments add almost two dozen additional highway
namings and 18 coauthors as well as refined the descriptions of
some of the affected route segments.
EXISTING LAW assigns Caltrans the responsibility to operate and
maintain state highways. This includes the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill:
1)Recounted the lives and careers of various deceased
individuals who made significant contributions to their
respective communities.
2)Described the history of the Ohlone Costanoan people of the
Pajaro Valley.
3)Designated specified state highway segments in honor of those
deceased persons as well as the Ohlone Costanoan people.
4)Requested 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.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee analysis, there will be minor State Highway Account
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costs to Caltrans that will be 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 would
instead agree to join as a coauthor and have their desired
designation added to it by way of amendment. This effort was
largely successful.
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093
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