BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING
Senator Jim Beall, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular
Bill No: ACR 165 Hearing Date: 6/28/2016
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|Author: |Bigelow |
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|Version: |4/7/2016 |
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|Urgency: | |Fiscal: |Yes |
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|Consultant|Randy Chinn |
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SUBJECT: America's Heroes-Veterans Memorial Highway
DIGEST: This bill designates a portion of State Highway 49 in
Amador County as the America's Heroes-Veteran's Memorial
Highway.
ANALYSIS:
Existing law assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating
and maintaining state highways including the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
This resolution:
1)Designates a portion State Highway Route 49 at Valley View
Way, from 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.
ACR 165 (Bigelow) Page 2 of ?
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.
Assembly Votes:
Floor: 77-0
Appr: 20-0
Trans: 15-0
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
POSITIONS: (Communicated to the committee before noon on
Wednesday,
June 22, 2016.)
SUPPORT:
None received
OPPOSITION:
None received
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