BILL ANALYSIS
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
ACR 71 (Nielsen)
As Amended August 26, 2009
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |74-0 |(July 9, 2009) |SENATE: |40-0 |(September 9, |
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Original Committee Reference: TRANS .
SUMMARY : Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 99 as the
Milton La Malfa Memorial Highway.
The Senate amendments cite Mr. Milton La Malfa's leadership in
rice issues.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility to operate
and maintain state highways, including the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill:
1)Recounted the life and career of Milton La Malfa, a prominent
rice farmer from Richvale, California.
2)Designated the segment of SR 99 between Oroville Dam Boulevard
West and Nelson Avenue in Oroville as the Milton La Malfa
Memorial Highway.
3)Requested 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.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee, minor costs to Caltrans to make and erect appropriate
signs that are covered by donations.
COMMENTS : Milton La Malfa was a lifelong farmer from Richvale,
California. He served as Director of the Butte County Rice
Growers Association from 1973 to 1975 and again from 1981 to
1986, as well as secretary-treasurer for four years and chair
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for one year. Mr. La Malfa also served with distinction as a
Director of Associated Rice Marketing Cooperative from 1988 to
1993, serving as chair for one year, and gave his time for many
years as director of the Richvale Seed Growers.
Mr. La Malfa was instrumental in organizing local farmers in
1985 to form the Western Canal Water Users Association, which
initiated the negotiations with Pacific Gas and Electric to
purchase the water rights and conveyance system for the farmers
in the area, and he subsequently became director of the Western
Canal Water District and served as its president. He also
contributed extensively as a director of Drainage District 200
and was on the Board of the Northern California Water
Association.
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093
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