BILL NUMBER: AB 2498	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 21, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Achadjian

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 101.14 to the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to highways.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2498, as amended, Achadjian. Highway signs: veterans' memorials
and monuments.
   Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation is in
full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law
provides for placement of signs on state highways, as specified.
   This bill would require the department to  erect, on the
state highway system,   affix, on National Purple Heart
Trail memorial signs existing as of January 1, 2015, directional
signs to each veterans' memorial or  monument, 
 monument located within three miles of State   Highway
101,  upon receiving funds from nonstate sources sufficient to
cover the cost.  The bill would prohibit the department from
affixing more than one directional sign on a National Purple Heart
Trail memorial sign located on State Highway 101. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 101.14 is added to the Streets and Highways
Code, to read:
   101.14.  The department shall  erect, on the state highway
system,   affix, on National Purple Heart Trail
memorial signs existing as of January 1, 2015,  directional
signs to each veterans' memorial or  monument,  
monument located within three miles of State Highway 101,  upon
receiving funds from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost.
 The department shall   not affix more than one
directional sign on a National Purple Heart Trail memorial sign
located on State Highway 101.