BILL NUMBER: SCR 59	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Knight

                        JULY 1, 2013

   Relative to the William J. "Pete" Knight Veterans Home.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 59, as introduced, Knight. William J. "Pete" Knight Veterans
Home of California-Lancaster.
   This measure would recognize the location of the William J. "Pete"
Knight Veterans Home of California-Lancaster in Los Angeles County
along State Highway Route 14 (SR 14) near the exit for West Avenue "I"
in the City of Lancaster and request the erection of 4 directional
signs at that exit indicating the location of the home. The measure
would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost
of appropriate signs and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, The William J. "Pete" Knight Veterans Home of
California-Lancaster (Veterans Home )is a 60-bed Residential Care
Facility for the Elderly, an assisted living facility that serves
veterans, where all health care needs, meals, transportation, and
activities for residents are provided in partnership with the VA
Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; and
   WHEREAS, The Veterans Home was named in honor and memory of the
late Senator William J. "Pete" Knight, a former United States Air
Force Colonel who spent 32 years in dedicated service to his country,
flew more than 253 missions in Vietnam, was a fighter pilot, test
pilot, astronaut, and legislator, and who was also considered one of
the Veterans Home's strongest and most vocal advocates when he served
in the California State Senate; and
   WHEREAS, The Veterans Home is located in the picturesque
high-desert area of southern California, just off the Antelope Valley
Freeway (State Route 14), and is only an hour's drive north from the
San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles; and
   WHEREAS, The Veterans Home provides California veterans with a
living environment that protects their dignity and contributes to
their feeling of self-reliance and self-worth; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby recognizes the
William J. "Pete" Knight Veterans Home of California-Lancaster in Los
Angeles County and its location along State Highway Route 14 (SR 14)
near the exit for West Avenue "I" in the City of Lancaster and
requests the erection of four directional signs as follows or as
otherwise consistent with the signing requirements for the state
highway system: two of the signs, one northbound and one southbound
on SR 14, to be placed before the exit for West Avenue "I" to read:
"Senator William J. "Pete" Knight Memorial Veterans Home, This Exit";
the other two signs to be placed at the stop signs after exiting the
freeway either northbound or southbound to read: "Senator William J.
"Pete" Knight Memorial Veterans Home, Left Turn" and "Senator
William J. "Pete" Knight Memorial Veterans Home, Right Turn"; and be
it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the signing
requirements for the state highway system and, upon receiving
donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to
erect those signs; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.