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          Date of Hearing:  April 18, 2016


                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION


                                 Jim Frazier, Chair


          ACR 165  
          (Bigelow) - As Introduced April 7, 2016


          SUBJECT:  America's Heroes-Veterans Memorial Highway


          SUMMARY: Designates a portion of State Highway 49 in Amador  
          County as the "America's Heroes-Veteran's Memorial Highway."   
          Specifically, this resolution:  


          1)Designates a portion State Highway Route 49 at Valley View Way  
            post mile R7.298 to approximately post mile R10.560 before the  
            Jay-D Ornsby-Adkins Bridge (bridge number 26-0043), located at  
            post mile R10.576, in the County of Amador as the "America's  
            Heroes-Veterans Memorial Highway." 


          2)Requests that the Department of Transportation (Caltrans)  
            determine the costs of erecting appropriate signs, which would  
            include this special designation, consistent with the signing  
            requirements for the state highway system, and upon receiving  
            donations from non-state sources covering the cost, to erect  
            those signs.


          EXISTING LAW: Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating  
          and maintaining state highways including the installation and  
          maintenance of highway signs.








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          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:  This resolution designates a portion of State Highway  
          Route 49 as the "America's Heroes-Veterans Memorial Highway," to  
          honor the men and women who have served in the United States  
          Armed Forces to protect and defend our country, including the  
          nearly two million veterans who reside in California and those  
          in Amador County.   


          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:




          Support


          One private citizen




          Opposition


          None on file




          Analysis Prepared by:Melissa White / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093










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