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           SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE       BILL NO: ACR 98
          SENATOR MARK DESAULNIER, CHAIRMAN              AUTHOR:  bigelow
                                                         VERSION: 2/14/14
          Analysis by:  Carrie Cornwell                  FISCAL:  yes
          Hearing date:  May 6, 2014



          SUBJECT:

          State Highway Route 132:  memorial plaque

          DESCRIPTION:

          This resolution authorizes the Department of Transportation  
          (Caltrans) to place a permanent plaque memorializing U.S. Secret  
          Service agents Donald W. Robinson, Donald A. Bejcek, and George  
          P. LeBarge at the location of the accident in which they died in  
          1983 on State Route (SR) 132 at the Mariposa-Tuolumne county  
          line.

          ANALYSIS:

          Existing law requires Caltrans the responsibility to maintain  
          and operate and maintaining state highways, including the  
          installation and maintenance of monuments and plaques placed in  
          the highway right-of-way.  

           This resolution  authorizes Caltrans to place a permanent  
          memorial plaque on SR 132 at the site of a 1983 accident on the  
          Mariposa-Tuolumne county line where Secret Service agents Donald  
          W. Robinson, Donald A. Bejcek, and George P. LeBarge died.  The  
          resolution further requests that Caltrans install the plaque  
          upon receiving donations from non-state sources to cover the  
          costs.  
          
          COMMENTS:

           Purpose  .  On March 5, 1983, three United States Secret Service  
          special agents died in a vehicle accident en route to their  
          assignment to protect the life of Queen Elizabeth II of the  
          United Kingdom during her official visit to the Yosemite Valley.  
           The three agents were traveling from Merced to Yosemite Valley  
          when their vehicle collided head-on with a Mariposa County  
          Sherriff's Department patrol car on SR 132 in Mariposa County,  
          California.  The three agents were Donald W. Robinson, who was  




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          38 years old and from Newark, New Jersey; Donald A. Bejcek, who  
          was 29 years old and from Chicago, Illinois; and George P.  
          LaBarge, who was 41 years old and from Dayton, Ohio.
          
          Assembly Votes:
               Floor:    77-0
               Appr: 17-0
               Trans:    14-0



          POSITIONS:  (Communicated to the committee before noon on  
          Wednesday,                                             April 30,  
          2014.)

               SUPPORT:  None received.

               OPPOSED:  None received.