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                                      CONSENT 


          Bill No:  ACR 180
          Author:   Obernolte (R) 
          Amended:  8/16/16 in Senate
          Vote:     21 

           SENATE TRANS. & HOUSING COMMITTEE:  11-0, 8/9/16
           AYES:  Beall, Cannella, Allen, Bates, Gaines, Galgiani, Leyva,  
            McGuire, Mendoza, Roth, Wieckowski

           SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE:  Senate Rule 28.8

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR:  76-0, 8/1/16 (Consent) - See last page for  
            vote

           SUBJECT:   Sergeant Brian Walker Memorial Highway


          SOURCE:    Author

          DIGEST:   This resolution designates a portion of State Highway  
          Route 247 in the County of San Bernardino as the Sergeant Brian  
          Walker Memorial Highway.

          ANALYSIS:   This resolution 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 at  
          post mile 44.366 and continuing to Camp Rock Road at post mile  
          39.598, as the Sergeant Brian Walker Memorial Highway.  The  
          Department of Transportation is requested to determine the cost  
          of erecting the appropriate signs, and upon receiving donations  
          from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
          
          Background
          
          Sergeant Brian L. Walker was born and raised in San Bernardino  








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          County's high desert region, attending Lucerne Valley High  
          School.  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.  Six days after arriving for his second deployment in  
          the Middle East, Sergeant Walker was killed when a vehicle under  
          his command was hit with an improvised explosive device.

          Comments

          1)Purpose.   The purpose of this resolution is to honor the life  
            and service of Sergeant Brian Walker.

          2)Amendments.  This resolution was amended in the Senate  
            Appropriations Committee to specify the precise start- and  
            endpoints of the highway segment to be named in Sergeant  
            Walker's memory.

          FISCAL EFFECT:   Appropriation:     No         Fiscal  
          Com.:YesLocal:   No 
          
          SUPPORT:   (Verified8/15/16)

          American Legion Post 879
          Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War
          Lucerne Valley Disaster Readiness Council, Inc.
          Lucerne Valley Root Diggers Genealogical Society
          Robertson's
          San Bernardino County Department of Veterans Affairs

          OPPOSITION:   (Verified8/15/16)

          None received


          ASSEMBLY FLOOR:  76-0, 8/1/16
          AYES:  Achadjian, Alejo, Travis Allen, Arambula, Atkins, Baker,  
            Bigelow, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brough, Brown, Burke,  
            Calderon, Chang, Chau, Chávez, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Cooper,  
            Dahle, Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Beth Gaines, Gallagher,  
            Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia, Gatto, Gipson, Gomez,  
            Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Holden, Irwin,  








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            Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Kim, Lackey, Levine, Lopez, Low,  
            Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin,  
            Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Olsen, Patterson, Quirk,  
            Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark  
            Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk, Williams,  
            Wood, Rendon
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Campos, Dababneh, Roger Hernández, Linder

          Prepared by:Sarah Carvill / T. & H. / (916) 651-4121 
          8/16/16 17:33:28


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