BILL ANALYSIS
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
ACR 33 (Jeffries)
As Amended April 20, 2009
Majority vote
TRANSPORTATION 14-0 APPROPRIATIONS 16-0
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|Ayes:|Eng, Jeffries, |Ayes:|De Leon, Nielsen Ammiano, |
| |Blumenfield, Buchanan, | |Davis, Duvall, Fuentes, |
| |Conway, Furutani, | |Hall, Harkey, Jones, |
| |Galgiani, Garrick, Bonnie | |Miller, John A. Perez, |
| |Lowenthal, Miller, | |Price, Skinner, Solorio, |
| |Niello, John A. Perez, | |Audra Strickland, |
| |Solorio, Torlakson | |Torlakson |
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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,
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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
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."
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093
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