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          Date of Hearing:   March 23, 2009

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                                   Mike Eng, Chair
                ACR 33 (Jeffries) - As Introduced:  February 24, 2009
           
          SUBJECT  :  State Route 15

           SUMMARY  :  Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 15 as the  
          Deputy Kent Hintergardt Memorial Highway.  Specifically,  this  
          bill  :  

          1)Recounts the life and career of Kent Hintergardt, a deputy  
            with the Riverside County Sheriff's Department who was shot  
            and killed in the line of duty.  

          2)Designates the segment of SR 15 from the SR 215 interchange to  
            the South 79 Exit at SR 79 in Temecula as the Deputy Kent  
            Hintergardt Memorial Highway.  

          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 this  
            special designation and, upon receiving donations from  
            nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those  
            signs.

           EXISTING LAW  :  Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating  
          and maintaining state highways.  This includes the installation  
          and maintenance of highway signs.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :  Unknown

           COMMENTS  :  Deputy Hintergardt fulfilled a childhood dream when,  
          in 1989, he joined the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.   
          His first assignment was in the Los Angeles County Central Jail  
          until he joined the Riverside County Sheriff's Department in  
          1991 and was assigned to the Lake Elsinore Station.  

          Deputy Hintergardt was subsequently reassigned to the Southwest  
          Station and served in the City of Temecula the last few months  
          before his untimely death.  As related by the author, he was  
          "tragically murdered on Mothers Day 1993, while responding to a  
          domestic violence call in Temecula.  Deputy Hintergardt  
          confronted the suspect in a parking lot who had just murdered  








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          his own girlfriend.  Deputy Hintergardt was the first Police  
          Officer in Temecula to be killed in the line of duty.  Kent was  
          33 years and left behind a pregnant widow and a one-year old  
          daughter.  Naming a portion of Interstate 15 after the fallen  
          Deputy Hintergardt is a small, but important step in honoring  
          his memory."  


           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   


           Support 
           
          American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees  
          (AFSCME)
          Riverside County Sheriff's Department
          Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone

           Opposition 
           
          None received
           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093