BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: April 23, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
ACR 129 (Conway) - As Introduced: March 14, 2012
SUBJECT : State Route 198
SUMMARY : Designates an overcrossing on State Route (SR) 198 as
the Corporal Jared Verbeek Memorial Overcrossing. Specifically,
this bill :
1)Recounts the life and career of Jared Verbeek, a Marine Corps
corporal who lost his life in the service of his county in
Afghanistan.
2)Designates the South Giddings Avenue overcrossing on SR 198 as
the Corporal Jared Verbeek Memorial Overcrossing.
3)Request 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 : While still in high school, Jared Verbeek worked with
the Tulare County Sheriff, where he assisted in background and
training documentation, and attended Congressman Devin Nunes'
military academy at night to learn more about obtaining a
commission as a military officer. He was selected for a
congressional appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy but instead
chose to enlist with the United States Marine Corps. After
working as a recruiter assistant, and receiving combat training
and training for military police, his chosen field Corporal
Verbeek received his first duty assignment with the Military
Police (MP) Company at Camp Pendleton and subsequently
volunteered to be an MP liaison for the First Battalion of the
Fifth Marine Regiment, which was deployed on March 17, 2011, to
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Afghanistan.
On June 21, 2011, Corporal Verbeek made the ultimate sacrifice
for his country when he died from wounds sustained while
conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
His service awards include the Purple Heart, the Combat Action
Ribbon, the National Defense Service Medal, the Global War on
Terrorism Service Medal, the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal,
and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, and a nomination for a
posthumous Purple Heart.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093