BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: March 22, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
ACR 103 (John Perez) - As Introduced: January 7, 2010
SUBJECT : State Route 101
SUMMARY : Designates a specified location of State Route (SR)
101 as the Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy Juan Abel Escalante
Memorial Highway. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the life and career of Juan Abel Escalante, a deputy
with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, who lost his
life in the line of duty.
2)Designates the southbound and northbound on ramps and off
ramps of North Vignes Avenue on SR 101 in Los Angeles County
as the Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy Juan Abel Escalante
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 to maintain
and operate state highways. This includes the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Deputy Escalante faithfully served the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department and the residents of Los Angeles
County as a deputy assigned to the Custody Division. He was a
sheriff's deputy for two and a half years. Mr. Escalante was
also a United States Army Reservist who was awarded the Armed
Forces Reserve Medal, Army Service Ribbon, National Defense
Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the
Army Achievement Medal.
Deputy Escalante is remembered as a passionate, loving husband
to his wife, Celeste, a loving son to his parents, Anna and
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Cesar Powell, a caring father to his children Alexander, Julian
and Marisa, and a thoughtful sibling to his brothers, Edgar and
Cesar. He committed his life to his family and friends, and his
career to Los Angeles County and the safety of its residents.
Deputy Escalante was loved by his friends and co-workers, and
had earned a reputation of caring deeply for his partners and
for being firm yet fair with inmates. He was killed in the line
of duty outside his home in the City of Los Angeles on August 2,
2008.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (sponsor)
California Peace Officers' association
California Police Chiefs Association
California State Sheriffs' Association
Opposition
None received
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093