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          SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING
                              Senator Jim Beall, Chair
                                2015 - 2016  Regular 

          Bill No:          ACR 100           Hearing Date:    6/28/2016
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          |Author:   |Travis Allen                                          |
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          |Version:  |5/2/2016                                              |
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          |Urgency:  |                       |Fiscal:      |Yes             |
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          |Consultant|Randy Chinn                                           |
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          SUBJECT:  Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway


            DIGEST:  This bill designates a portion of Interstate 405 in  
          Orange County as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway.

          ANALYSIS:
          
          Existing law:
          
          The committee has adopted a policy regarding the naming of state  
          highways or structures.  Under the policy, the committee will  
          consider only those resolutions that meet all of the following  
          criteria:

          1)The person being honored must have provided extraordinary  
            public service or some exemplary contribution to the public  
            good and have a connection to the community where the highway  
            or structure is located.

          2)The person being honored must be deceased.

          3)The naming must be done without cost to the state.  Costs for  
            signs and plaques must be paid by local or private sources.

          4)The author or co-author of the resolution must represent the  
            district in which the facility is located, and the resolution  
            must identify the specific highway segment or structure being  
            named.








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          5)The segment of highway being named must not exceed five miles  
            in length.   

          6)The proposed designation must reflect a community consensus  
            and be without local opposition.  

          7)The proposed designation may not supersede an existing  
            designation unless the sponsor can document that a good faith  
            effort has uncovered no opposition to rescinding the prior  
            designation.

          This resolution designates a portion of Interstate 405 in Orange  
          County between postmile 24.178 and postmile 20.4 as the Kevin  
          Woyjeck Memorial Highway.  The Department of Transportation is  
          requested to determine the cost of appropriate signs and upon  
          receiving sufficient donations from nonstate sources, to erect  
          those signs.


          COMMENTS:

          1)Purpose.  This resolution is intended to honor the life and  
            service of Kevin Woyjeck.

          2)Background.  Mr. Woyjeck grew up in Seal Beach, California,  
            graduating from Los Alamitos High School in Los Alamitos,  
            California.  When he was 15 years old, Mr. Woyjeck joined the  
            Los Angeles County Fire Department Explorer Program.  He  
            became an emergency medical technician while in high school  
            and worked on an ambulance crew shortly after graduating.  Mr.  
            Woyjeck had extensive training as a firefighter, having taken  
            firefighting classes at Santa Ana College, El Camino College  
            Structure Fire Academy, and the Department of Forestry and  
            Fire Protection Academy in San Luis Obispo.  In April 2013,  
            Mr. Woyjeck joined the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite  
            crew who had direct wildland firefighting responsibilities  
            with the ability to provide service anywhere in the nation.   
            After successfully fighting fires and saving lives and  
            property in New Mexico and Arizona, Mr. Woyjeck and other crew  
            members responded to an out-of-control fire in Yarnell,  
            Arizona on June 30, 2013.  Nineteen of the 20 young men in the  
            Granite Mountain Hotshots tragically lost their lives fighting  
            that fire, including Mr. Woyjeck.

          FISCAL EFFECT:  Appropriation:  No     Fiscal Com.:  Yes     








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          Local:  No 


            POSITIONS:  (Communicated to the committee before noon on  
          Wednesday,
                          June 22, 2016.)
          
            SUPPORT:  

          The Honorable Linda Sanchez, Member of Congress
          The Honorable Don Knabe, Los Angeles County Supervisor
          CARE Ambulance Service
          City of Garden Grove
          City of Seal Beach
          Los Alamitos Unified School District
          Los Angeles County Explorer Post 13
          Seal Beach Lifeguard Association

          OPPOSITION:

          None received


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