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          Date of Hearing:   April 29, 2013

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                               Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
                   ACR 51 (Jones) - As Introduced:  April 22, 2013
           
          SUBJECT  :  Jimmy A. Arevalo Memorial Highway.

           SUMMARY  :  Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 8 as the  
          Jimmy A. Arevalo Memorial Highway.  Specifically,  this bill  :  

          1)Recounts the life and career of Jimmy A. Arevalo, an educator,  
            husband, and father who tragically lost his life when he was  
            struck by a vehicle on SR 8 near Alpine in the County of San  
            Diego while attempting to assist a driver who was involved in  
            an earlier accident.  

          2)Designates the portion of SR 8 between milepost R27.80 and  
            milepost R28.46 in the County of San Diego as the Jimmy A.  
            Arevalo Memorial Highway.  

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

           EXISTING LAW  : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating  
          and maintaining state highways including the installation and  
          maintenance of highway signs.  

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

           COMMENTS  :  On June 11, 2012, Jimmy A. Arevalo, a beloved teacher  
          from Calexico, was struck by a vehicle and killed while  
          attempting to assist a driver who had been involved in a single  
          car accident on SR 8, west of Tavern Road.  Mr. Arevalo  
          graduated from Calexico High School in 1971 and served in the US  
          Army before being honorably discharged in 1972.  Mr. Arevalo  
          received his bachelor's degree in liberal studies in 1978 and  
          was awarded a master's degree in public administration from San  
          Diego State University in 1980.  Mr. Arevalo is survived by his  
          wife of 30 years, Silvia, as well as by his two sons Bernardo  








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          and Roberto and his daughter Lisa "Lupita."   

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   

           Support 
           
          None on file

           Opposition 
           
          None on file
           

          Analysis Prepared by  :   Victoria Alvarez / TRANS. / (916) 319-  
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