BILL ANALYSIS
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
ACR 148 (Charles Calderon)
As Amended April 13, 2010
Majority vote
TRANSPORTATION 13-0 APPROPRIATIONS 16-0
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|Ayes:|Bonnie Lowenthal, Jeffries, |Ayes:|Fuentes, Conway, Ammiano, |
| | | |Bradford, Charles Calderon, |
| |Bill Berryhill, | |Coto, De Leon, Hall, |
| |Blumenfield, Buchanan, | |Harkey, Miller, Nielsen, |
| |Eng, Furutani, Galgiani, | |Norby, Skinner, Solorio, |
| |Hayashi, Miller, Niello, | |Torlakson, Torrico |
| |Portantino, Solorio | | |
| | | | |
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SUMMARY : Requests signs on State Route (SR) 60 directing motorists
to the Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument. Specifically, this
resolution :
1)Recounts the experience of the Armenian people living in the
Ottoman Empire in 1915 and notes that the lives of nearly
1,500,000 Armenians were lost from 1915 to 1921.
2)Notes that the Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument was erected in
1965 in Bicknell Park in the City of Montebello in dedication to
those Armenian victims and to all victims of crimes against
humanity.
3)Declares the Legislature's recognition of the importance of the
Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument to the people of California.
4)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to erect
informational signs on the westbound portion of SR 60 leading to
the Garfield Avenue exit and the eastbound portion of SR 60
leading to the Garfield Avenue exit, directing motorists to the
Armenian Martyrs Monument, consistent with the signing
requirements for the state highway system and upon receiving
donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost to
erect those signs.
EXISTING LAW assigns Caltrans the responsibility to operate and
maintain state highways. This includes the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee,
minor costs to Caltrans to erect appropriate signs; these costs are
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covered by donations.
COMMENTS : According to the text of the resolution, the Armenian
people living in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 suffered what is known
by historians as the "First Genocide of the Twentieth Century," and
as the prototype of modern day mass killing. This began with the
arrest, exile, and murder of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals,
and business, political, and religious leaders, starting on April
24, 1915. The Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument was erected in
1965 in Bicknell Park in the City of Montebello in dedication to
the 1,500,000 Armenian victims of the genocide and is the site of
religious and cultural commemorations by the Armenian community in
southern California.
Opponents of this bill term it an insult to Turkish-American
citizens as they dispute the historical existence of any Armenian
genocide.
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093
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