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CONSENT
Bill No: ACR 197
Author: Gatto (D) and Holden (D)
Amended: 8/15/16 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: Jackie Robinson Memorial Highway
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This resolution designates a portion of Interstate 210
in the County of Los Angeles as the Jackie Robinson Memorial
Highway.
ANALYSIS: This resolution designates a portion of Interstate
210 from Gould Avenue to Orange Grove Boulevard in the County of
Los Angeles as the Jackie Robinson Memorial Highway. The
Department of Transportation is requested to determine the cost
of installation and maintenance of appropriate signs and, upon
receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to
erect those signs.
Comments
1)Purpose. This resolution is intended to honor the life and
accomplishments of Jackie Robinson.
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2)Background. Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was born on
January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, to a family of
sharecroppers. Mr. Robinson attended John Muir High School
and Pasadena City College. In 1939 he transferred to UCLA,
where he became the first Bruin to letter in four sports:
basketball, football, baseball, and track. Mr. Robinson
served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army and
was arrested and court martialed for refusing to move to the
back of a bus. He was acquitted of all charges and received
an honorable discharge.
On April 15, 1947, Mr. Robinson made his major league debut
for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the first time ever than an
African-American athlete played in major league baseball.
That year he earned the inaugural Major League Baseball Rookie
of the Year Award. He retired from baseball in 1957 with a
career batting average of .311 and was the first
African-American inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. His
uniform number, 42, is the only number retired by all of
baseball in honor of his accomplishments.
Mr. Robinson became a vocal champion for African-American
athletes, civil rights, and other social and political causes.
He served on the board of the NAACP until 1967.
Mr. Robinson died on October 24, 1972. He is survived by his
wife and two of his three children.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: No Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: No
SUPPORT: (Verified8/15/16)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
OPPOSITION: (Verified8/15/16)
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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,
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
8/15/16 20:30:09
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