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CONSENT
Bill No: ACR 14
Author: Irwin (D)
Amended: 7/1/15 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANS. & HOUSING COMMITTEE: 11-0, 6/16/15
AYES: Beall, Cannella, Allen, Bates, Gaines, Galgiani, Leyva,
McGuire, Mendoza, Roth, Wieckowski
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 80-0, 4/20/15 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT: Deputy Sheriff Yevhen Eugene Kostiuchenko Memorial
Highway
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This resolution designates a specified portion of State
Highway Route (SR) 101 in the County of Ventura as the Deputy
Sheriff Yevhen "Eugene" Kostiuchenko Memorial Highway.
ANALYSIS:
This resolution designates the 2.040-mile portion of SR 101
between Lewis Road/Junction State Route 34 at mile post 13.848
and Las Posas Road at mile post 15.888 in the County of Ventura
as the Deputy Sheriff Yevhen "Eugene" Kostiuchenko Memorial
Highway. The resolution further requests that the Department of
Transportation erect appropriate signs upon receiving donations
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from non-state sources to cover the costs.
Comments
Purpose. The author introduced this resolution to honor the
life and service of Ventura County Deputy Sheriff Yevhen
"Eugene" Kostiuchenko.
Background on Deputy Sheriff Kostiuchenko. Ventura County
Deputy Sheriff Yevhen "Eugene" Kostiuchenko was born in Kiev,
Ukraine, on January 30, 1973. He was raised in Kiev, and later
attended the Military University of Defense of Russian
Federation in Moscow where he received a master's degree in
linguistics. He spoke four languages fluently and served as a
captain in the Ukrainian Armed Forces from 1995 to 1999.
Deputy Sheriff Kostiuchenko worked as a military intelligence
officer and served as a liaison with the Federal Bureau of
Investigations, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the
Central Intelligence Agency, and also served as the adjutant to
the general of the Ukrainian Army.
Deputy Sheriff Kostiuchenko began his career with the County of
Ventura in 2003, first as the program administrator with the
Sheriff's Office of Emergency Services and later as a deputy
sheriff trainee. He was sworn in as a deputy sheriff on
November 29, 2007. He worked in the Detention Services Division
until 2013 and was later transferred to patrol in the city of
Camarillo.
On October 28, 2014, after completing an early morning traffic
stop, Deputy Sheriff Kostiuchenko was struck and killed by a
drunk driver as he was walking back to his patrol car.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified6/30/15)
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None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified6/30/15)
None received
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 80-0, 4/20/15
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chang,
Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Dababneh, Dahle,
Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Cristina
Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez,
Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Roger Hernández, Holden,
Irwin, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Linder,
Lopez, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina,
Melendez, Mullin, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen,
Patterson, Perea, Quirk, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez,
Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting,
Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams, Wood, Atkins
Prepared by:Randy Chinn / T. & H. / (916) 651-4121
7/1/15 16:29:25
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