BILL ANALYSIS
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
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As Amended May 14, 2009
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |78-0 |(April 13, |SENATE: |39-0 |(June 2, 2009) |
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Original Committee Reference: TRANS .
SUMMARY : Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 91 as the Los
Angeles County Deputy Sheriff David Powell Memorial Highway.
The Senate amendments are technical and nonsubstantive and were
taken in order to add Senator Lowenthal as a coauthor.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns the Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
the responsibility of operating and maintaining state highways.
This responsibility includes the installation and maintenance of
highway signs.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill:
1)Recounted the life and career of David Powell, a Deputy Sheriff
with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
2)Designated the segment of SR 91 between SR 605 and Pioneer
Boulevard as the Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff David Powell
Memorial Highway.
3)Requested 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.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee,
there will be minor costs to Caltrans to make and erect appropriate
signs; these costs are covered by donations.
COMMENTS : Deputy David Powell of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department served as a law enforcement officer for 19 years. A
resident of Torrance and a graduate of Loyola Marymount University,
Deputy Powell stated the reason he became a law enforcement officer
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was to make a positive difference in other people's lives; and, as a
deputy sheriff, he was praised by his peers, supervisors, and by
members of the community for his tireless efforts to guide young
people away from drugs and gangs.
Deputy Powell was awarded the Medal of Valor by the City of Lakewood
for saving the life of an individual attempting suicide in the year
2000. In 2002, he tried desperately to remove critically injured
passengers from a burning vehicle and was again honored for his
heroic actions with a second Medal of Valor.
Sadly, David Powell was killed in the line of duty on November 30,
2002, in the City of Artesia while conducting an investigation.
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093 FN:
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