Amended in Senate August 16, 2016

Amended in Assembly May 26, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 180

Introduced by Assembly Member Obernolte

May 5, 2016

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 180—Relative to the Sergeant Brian Walker Memorial Highway.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

ACR 180, as amended, Obernolte. Sergeant Brian Walker Memorial Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of 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
begin delete School end delete begin insert School, end insert 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 begin delete Walker end delete begin insert Walker, end insert 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 the
portion of State Highway Route 247 in the County of San
Bernardino, beginning at the intersection of State Highway Route
247 and Allen Way begin insert at postmile 44.366 end insert and continuing begin delete toward
Johnson Valley for five miles, end delete begin insert to Camp Rock Road at postmile
39.598, end insert 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.