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          Date of Hearing:   September 1, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                               Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
                   SCR 26 (Blakeslee) - As Amended:  April 25, 2011

           SENATE VOTE  :   39-0
           
          SUBJECT  :  State Route 1

           SUMMARY  :  Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 1 as the 
          Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway.  Specifically,  this bill  :  


          1)Notes that California is home to more than 7 million veterans 
            and dependents representing more than 10 percent of 
            California's population, that California residents currently 
            serve as active duty military personnel than do residents of 
            any other state, that more than 350,000 California veterans 
            served in the Vietnam War, 40,000 of whom were wounded and 
            5,822 of whom were missing in action or killed, and that 220 
            young men and women from the City of Guadalupe served their 
            country in the Vietnam War, three of whom bravely made the 
            ultimate sacrifice.  


          2)Designates the segment of SR 1 in the City of Guadalupe as the 
            Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway.  


          3)Requests that signs designating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial 
            Highway be placed along southbound SR 1 at the San Luis Obispo 
            County and Santa Barbara County line, and northbound at the 
            intersection of SR 166 and SR 1.  


          4)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to 
            determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers, 
            consistent with the signing requirements for the state highway 
            system, showing these special designations, and upon receiving 
            donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover that cost, 
            to erect those plaques and markers.  


           EXISTING LAW  :  Assigns Caltrans the responsibility to maintain 








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          and operate state highways.  This includes the installation and 
          maintenance of highway signs.  


           FISCAL EFFECT  :  Unknown.  This bill was withdrawn from the 
          Senate Appropriations Committee pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
            
           COMMENTS  :  By naming a portion of SR 1 for Vietnam veterans, 
          this resolution seeks to express the gratitude and appreciation 
          of the residents of Santa Barbara County for the sacrifices that 
          all service members, especially those from local communities, 
          made for their country in Vietnam.  This resolution also seeks 
          to create a veterans recognition corridor that hopefully will 
          link the various local veterans museums and memorials and become 
          an ongoing memorial for veterans and their families.  

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          Vietnam Veterans of America, California State Council
           
            Opposition 
           
          None on file

           Analysis Prepared by  :   Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093