BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: June 22, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Jim Frazier, Chair
SCR
12 (Jackson) - As Amended February 26, 2015
SENATE VOTE: 37-0
SUBJECT: Officer Samuel Sanchez Memorial Highway.
SUMMARY: Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 166 in Santa
Barbara County as the "Officer Samuel Sanchez Memorial Highway."
Specifically, this resolution:
1) Recounts the life of Officer Samuel Sanchez of the
Guadalupe Police Department.
2) Designates a three-mile segment of SR 166 between Bonita
School Road and Simas Road in Santa Barbara County as the
"Officer Samuel Sanchez Memorial Highway."
3) Requests that the California Department of
Transportation (Caltrans) determine the cost of appropriate
signs, consistent with the signing requirements for the
state highway system, showing the special designation and,
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upon receiving donations from non-state sources covering
that cost, to erect those signs.
EXISTING LAW: Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating
and maintaining state highways including the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT: Unknown, but the measure requests that Caltrans
only erect the appropriate signage upon receiving donations from
non-state sources covering the cost.
COMMENTS: Officer Sanchez was one of nine children from a
large California native family and six of his siblings were in
law enforcement. Officer Sanchez joined the Guadalupe Police
Department in the City of Guadalupe in 1969. He was killed in a
head-on collision with a drunk driver in 1969 while transporting
three prisoners to jail along SR 166. Officer Sanchez left
behind an infant daughter. This resolution designating a
specific portion of SR 166 acknowledges the service and
sacrifice of Officer Sanchez.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
Support
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American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees,
ALF-CIO
Guadalupe Police Department
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by:Janet Dawson / TRANS. / (916)
319-2093