BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: April 13, 2009
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Mike Eng, Chair
ACR 20 (Bill Berryhill) - As Amended: April 15, 2009
SUBJECT : State Route 99
SUMMARY : Designates a Sergeant Howard K. Stevenson Memorial
Interchange. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the career and untimely death of Howard King
Stevenson, an officer with the Ceres police Department.
2)Designates the interchange at State Route (SR) 99 and Whitmore
Avenue as the Sergeant Howard K. Stevenson Memorial
Interchange.
3)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to
determine the cost of appropriate signs, consistent with the
signing requirements for the state highway system, showing the
special designation and, upon receiving donations from
nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating
and maintaining state highways. This responsibility includes
the installation and maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Sergeant Howard King "Howie" Stevenson was born on
February 18, 1965, and on June 3, 1986, at 21 years of age,
became a peace officer with the Ceres Police Department.
On January 9, 2005, while responding to a call for assistance at
a local liquor store, Sergeant Stevenson and fellow officers
were ambushed and met with a hail of gunfire from an assault
rifle. He died almost instantly.
Howard Stevenson was the first police officer in the 86-year
history of the City of Ceres to be killed in the line of duty.
A mile-long procession of police cars, motorcycles, fire engines
and ambulances accompanied his remains to their final resting
place. He is remembered affectionately by his fellow officers
as being a role model and mentor to younger officers, and as
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being "a cops' cop."
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
(AFSCME)
Opposition
None received
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093