BILL NUMBER: ACR 98	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bigelow
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Wagner)
   (Coauthor: Senator Berryhill)

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2014

   Relative to State Route 132.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 98, as introduced, Bigelow. State Highway Route 132: memorial
plaque.
   This measure would authorize the placement of a permanent memorial
plaque on State Highway Route 132, at the site where United States
Secret Service Agents Donald W. Robinson, Donald A. Bejcek, and
George P. LaBarge perished in a vehicle accident while on assignment
to protect the life of Queen Elizabeth II. The measure would also
request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of
erecting the permanent memorial plaque and, upon receiving donations
from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect the plaque.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, On March 5, 1983, United States Secret Service Special
Agents Donald W. Robinson, Donald A. Bejcek, and George P. LaBarge
were on official business while traveling in a vehicle from Merced,
California, to Yosemite National Park; and
   WHEREAS, These special agents were enroute to their assignment to
protect the life of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom during
her official visit to Yosemite Valley; and
   WHEREAS, Tragically all three of these special agents perished on
that date in a vehicle accident while traveling on State Highway
Route 132 in Mariposa County, California; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby authorizes the
placement of a permanent memorial plaque on State Highway Route 132
at the site of the March 5, 1983, accident, which shall be located
between highway marker 300, located west of the Jalapa Road east
bound lane, and highway marker 371 at the county line with
Mariposa/Tuolumne east bound lane; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of erecting a memorial plaque consistent with the
requirements for the state highway system and, upon receiving
donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to
erect the plaque; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.