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          Date of Hearing:   January 13, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                               Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
                    SCR 38 (Hueso) - As Amended:  August 22, 2013

           SENATE VOTE  :  36-0
           
          SUBJECT  :  Memorial Highway Naming

           SUMMARY  :   Designates a specific portion of State Highway Route  
          (SR) 94 in San Diego County as the Stephen Palmer, Sr. Memorial  
          Highway.  Specifically,  this bill  : 

          1)Recounts the life and accomplishments of Mr. Palmer, Sr.  
              
          2)Designates specific portions of SR 94 between Old Campo Road  
            and Melody Road in San Diego County as the "Stephen Palmer,  
            Sr. Memorial Highway."  

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

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

           COMMENTS  :  Mr. Palmer, Sr., was born on November 24, 1946, in  
          Lima, Peru.  In 1964, he enlisted in the United States Navy and  
          served for 4 years.  Mr. Palmer, Sr. began working for Caltrans  
          in 2007, where he quickly worked his way into playing an  
          integral role of Caltrans' District 11 Imperial Landscape Crew.   
          Stephen Palmer, Sr. died from injuries sustained after being  
          struck by a trolley car in the National City area of San Diego  
          while performing landscaping duties for Caltrans.  Mr. Palmer,  
          Sr. died at the age of 64 on May 4, 2011.  








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           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          None on file
           
            Opposition 
           
          None on file 

           
          Analysis Prepared by  :   Victoria Alvarez / TRANS. / (916)  
          319-2093