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          Date of Hearing:   April 29, 2013

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                               Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
                    ACR 41 (Chavez) - As Amended:  April 22, 2013
           
          SUBJECT  :  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Bridge.

           SUMMARY :  Designates the Mission Avenue Bridge over Interstate 5  
          (I-5) in the City of Oceanside as the Dr. Martin Luther King,  
          Jr. Memorial Bridge.  Specifically,  this bill  :  

          1)Recounts the life and accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther  
            King, Jr., a Nobel Peace Prize recipient who combated racial  
            inequality through nonviolence and who was assassinated on  
            April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee.  

          2)Designates the Mission Avenue Bridge (Bridge No. 57-0266) over  
            I-5 in the City of Oceanside, California as the Dr. Martin  
            Luther King, Jr. Memorial Bridge.  

          3)Requests that the California Department of Transportation  
            (Caltrans) determine the cost of appropriate signs, consistent  
            with the signing requirements for the state highway system,  
            showing the special designation and, upon receiving donations  
            from non-state sources covering the cost, to erect those  
            signs.  

           EXISTING LAW  :  Assigns Caltrans the responsibility to determine  
          the cost of appropriate signs, consistent with the signing  
          requirements for the state highway system, showing the special  
          designation and, upon receiving donations from non-state sources  
          covering that cost, to erect those signs.  

           FISCAL EFFECT :  Costs to make and erect the appropriate signs  
          are covered by donations.  

           COMMENTS  :  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15,  
          1929.  He was an American clergyman, doctor of theology,  
          activist, and leader in the African American Civil Rights  
          Movement who was best known for his role in the advancement of  
          civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience.  Dr. King led  
          the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and in 1963 helped to organize  
          the March on Washington D.C., where he delivered his, now  
          famous, "I Have a Dream" speech.  Dr. King was assassinated on  








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          April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee and was posthumously awarded  
          the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold  
          Medal.  

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          None on file

           Opposition 
           
          None on file
           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Victoria Alvarez / TRANS. / (916) 319-  
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