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          Date of Hearing:   June 22, 2009

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                                   Mike Eng, Chair
                   ACR 78 (Buchanan) - As Introduced:  June 1, 2009
           
          SUBJECT  :  State Route 580

           SUMMARY  :  Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 580 as the  
          California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer John P. Miller Memorial  
          Highway.  Specifically,  this bill  :  

          1)Recounts the life and career of John P. Miller, a CHP officer  
            who lost his life in the line of duty, while attempting to  
            apprehend a drunk driver.  

          2)Designates the segment of SR 580 from Airway Boulevard  
            (eastbound milepost marker 14.98) to North Flynn Road  
            (westbound milepost marker 6.00) in Livermore as the CHP  
            Officer John P. Miller Memorial Highway.  

          3)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to  
            determine the cost of erecting the appropriate signs,  
            consistent with the signing requirements for the state highway  
            system, showing this special designation and, upon receiving  
            donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect  
            those signs.  

           EXISTING LAW  :  Assigns Caltrans the responsibility to operate  
          and maintain state highways, including the installation and  
          maintenance of highway signs.  

          FISCAL EFFECT  :  Unknown

           COMMENTS  :  John Paul Miller entered the California Highway  
          Patrol Academy on September 18, 2006, and upon graduation, was  
          assigned to the Dublin Area Office in April 2007, serving the  
          Dublin area for seven months.  A graduate of the University of  
          Phoenix, he was a hard-working, dedicated officer who loved his  
          job and enjoyed the people he worked with.  He was known for  
          being a loyal family man and a wonderful father and husband. His  
          greatest joys were his wife and children.  

          Officer Miller, badge number 18414, was killed in the line of  
          duty on November 16, 2007, while he was attempting to apprehend  








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          a drunk driver in the Livermore Valley.  As Officer Miller was  
          driving south on North Livermore Avenue, north of Interstate  
          580, he was involved in a patrol car collision that caused his  
          fatal injuries.  

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :  

           Support 
           
          None received

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