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          Date of Hearing:  June 22, 2015


                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION


                                 Jim Frazier, Chair


          ACR 84  
          (O'Donnell) - As Introduced June 8, 2015


          SUBJECT:  Officer Joe Mata and Officer Roberto C. Sanchez  
          Memorial Highway.


          SUMMARY: Designates a specific portion of State Route (SR) 110  
          in the City of Los Angeles as the "Officer Joe Mata and Officer  
          Roberto C. Sanchez Memorial Highway."  Specifically, this  
          resolution:  


          1)Recounts the lifetime accomplishments of Officer Robert Joe  
            Mata and Officer Robert C. Sanchez, both of whom were officers  
            with the Los Angeles Police Department.


          1)Designates a specific portion of SR 110 between Exit 1A and  
            Exit 1B in the City of Los Angeles as the "Officer Joe Mata  
            and Officer Roberto C. Sanchez Memorial Highway."

          2)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 of operating  







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          and maintaining state highways.  This includes the installation  
          and maintenance of highway signs.  


          FISCAL EFFECT:  Unknown, but the measure requests that Caltrans  
          only erect the appropriate signage upon receiving donations from  
          non-state sources covering the cost.


          COMMENTS:  Officer Mata and Officer Sanchez were both officers  
          with the Los Angeles Police Department.  Officer Mata was a  
          United States Navy veteran, having served on the destroyer  
          U.S.S. Fletcher during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.  Officer  
          Mata was killed in a vehicle accident while responding to a  
          call.  He left behind a wife and two daughters.  Officer  
          Sanchez, originally from Mexico City, reportedly believed that  
          being a police officer was the most honorable way of serving the  
          community and protecting the innocent.  He was fatally injured  
          in a vehicle accident while attempting a traffic stop.  He left  
          behind his wife.


          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:


          Support


          


          California Fraternal Order of Policy


          Long Beach Police Officers Association


          Los Angeles County P.P.O.A.









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          Sacramento County Deputy Sheriffs' Association




          Opposition




          None on file




          Analysis Prepared by:Janet Dawson / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093