BILL NUMBER: ACR 180	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Obernolte

                        MAY 5, 2016

   Relative to the Sergeant Brian Walker Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 180, as introduced, Obernolte. Sergeant Brian Walker Memorial
Highway.
   This measure would designate a portion of State Highway Route 18
or State Highway Route 247 in the County of San Bernardino as the
Sergeant Brian Walker Memorial Highway. The measure would also
request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of
appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon
receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to
erect those signs.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, Sergeant Brian L. Walker was born and raised in San
Bernardino County's high desert region; and
   WHEREAS, Sergeant Walker attended Lucerne Valley High School where
he was an officer in the Future Farmers of America program; and
   WHEREAS, Sergeant Walker served as a military policeman in the
United States Army assigned to the 425th Brigade Special Troops
Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry
Division; and
   WHEREAS, Six days after arriving for his second deployment in the
Middle East, Sergeant Walker was tragically killed in Afghanistan on
May 13, 2012, when a vehicle under his command was hit with an
improvised explosive device, killing him and the driver of the
vehicle, Private First Class Richard L. McNulty III; and
   WHEREAS, Naming a highway is but a small way to honor the bravery
of Sergeant Walker who made the ultimate sacrifice so that we may
enjoy the freedoms of this great nation; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates a portion
of State Highway Route 18 or State Highway 247 in the County of San
Bernardino, beginning at the intersection of State Highway Route 18
and State Highway Route 247, as the Sergeant Brian Walker Memorial
Highway; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of erecting the appropriate signs, consistent with
the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing this
special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those signs; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.