BILL NUMBER: ACR 65	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 22, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 22, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hall
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Brown, Holden, Jones-Sawyer,
Levine, Mitchell, Ting, Weber, Achadjian, Alejo, Atkins, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bradford, Buchanan, Ian Calderon, Campos, Chau,
Cooley, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Garcia, Gatto,
Gomez, Gonzalez, Gorell, Gray, Hagman, Harkey, Roger Hernández,
Linder, Logue, Maienschein, Medina, Morrell, Mullin, Muratsuchi,
Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. Pérez, V.
Manuel Pérez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Salas, Stone, Wagner,
Waldron, Wilk, Williams, and Yamada)
   (Coauthors: Senators Price and Wright)

                        JUNE 12, 2013

   Relative to the Willie L. Brown, Jr. Bridge.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 65, Hall. The Willie L. Brown, Jr. Bridge.
   This measure would name the western span of the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge the Willie L. Brown, Jr. Bridge. The
measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine
the cost for erecting appropriate signs showing this special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
covering that cost, to erect those signs.




   WHEREAS, Willie L. Brown, Jr. was born on March 20, 1934, in
Mineola, Texas, and was the son of Minnie Collins Boyd and Willie
Lewis Brown, Sr. and grandson of Anna Collins. He married the former
Blanche Vitero in September 1957. He is the father of four children:
Susan Elizabeth Brown, Robin Elaine Brown-Friedel, Michael Elliot
Brown, and Sydney Minetta Brown; and
   WHEREAS, Mr. Brown received a bachelor of arts degree from San
Francisco State University in 1955 and a juris doctor from the
University of California, Hastings College of Law, in 1958. He was
admitted to the practice of law in the State of California and to the
federal court, including the United States Supreme Court; and
   WHEREAS, Mr. Brown was first elected in 1964 and served in all of
the following capacities: as a Member of the California State
Assembly from 1965 to 1995, as Speaker of the California State
Assembly as the longest serving Speaker in California history, from
1980 to 1995, and the first African American; and two terms as the
41st Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco, from January 8,
1996, to January 8, 2004; and
   WHEREAS, Mr. Brown served as the Chair of the Assembly Ways and
Means Committee and the Chair of the Assembly Revenue and Taxation
Committee; served on the Board of Trustees of the California State
University system and as a Regent of the University of California;
and served on the Board of Administration of the California Public
Employees' Retirement System; and
   WHEREAS, As mayor of California's most cosmopolitan city, he
refurbished and rebuilt one of the nation's busiest transit systems,
pioneered the use of bond measures to build affordable housing,
created a model juvenile justice system, and paved the way for
creating the expansion campus of the University of California, San
Francisco, to serve as the anchor of a new development that would
position the city as a center for the burgeoning field of
biotechnology; and
   WHEREAS, Mr. Brown is widely regarded as one of the most
influential politicians of the late 20th century, and has been at the
center of California politics, government, and civic life for an
astonishing four decades; and
   WHEREAS, Mr. Brown's career spans the American presidency from
Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama, and he has worked with every
California Governor from Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr., to Edmund
Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr., and has left his imprimatur on every
aspect of politics and public policy in the Golden State, including
civil rights, education reform, tax policy, economic development,
health care, international trade, domestic partnerships, and
affirmative action; and
   WHEREAS, Today, Mr. Brown heads the Willie L. Brown, Jr. Institute
on Politics and Public Service, where he shares his vast political
knowledge and skills with a new generation of California leaders;
now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the California Legislature takes great pride
in recognizing Willie L. Brown, Jr. for all of his political,
professional, and personal accomplishments by naming the western span
of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge the Willie L. Brown, Jr.
Bridge to honor and commemorate his many contributions to California;
and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of erecting the appropriate signs, consistent with
the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing this
special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those signs; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, the
President pro Tempore of the Senate, the California Legislative Black
Caucus, the Director of Transportation, and the author for
appropriate distribution.