BILL ANALYSIS �
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
ACR 129 (Conway)
As Introduced March 14, 2012
Majority vote
TRANSPORTATION 12-0 APPROPRIATIONS 16-0
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|Ayes:|Bonnie Lowenthal, |Ayes:|Fuentes, Harkey, |
| |Jeffries, Achadjian, | |Blumenfield, Bradford, |
| |Blumenfield, Bonilla, | |Charles Calderon, Campos, |
| |Buchanan, Eng, Carter, | |Davis, Donnelly, Gatto, |
| |Galgiani, Miller, | |Hall, Hill, Lara, |
| |Portantino, Solorio | |Mitchell, Nielsen, |
| | | |Solorio, Wagner |
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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)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 of operating and
maintaining state highways. This includes the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee,
minor State Highway Account costs to Caltrans to make and erect
appropriate signs. Those costs are covered by donations.
COMMENTS : While still in high school, Jared Verbeek worked with
the Tulare County Sheriff, where he assisted in background and
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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 United States 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 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.
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093 FN:
0003459