BILL ANALYSIS �
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE BILL NO: Scr 28
SENATOR MARK DESAULNIER, CHAIRMAN AUTHOR: strickland
VERSION: 3/24/11
Analysis by: Mark Stivers FISCAL: Yes
Hearing date: May 3, 2011
SUBJECT:
Correctional Officer Scott Williams Memorial Highway
DESCRIPTION:
This resolution designates a portion of State Highway Route (SR)
1 in Santa Barbara County as the Correctional Officer Scott
Williams Memorial Highway.
ANALYSIS:
The committee has adopted a policy regarding the naming of state
highways or structures. Under the policy, the committee will
consider only those resolutions that meet all of the following
criteria:
The person being honored must have provided extraordinary
public service or some exemplary contribution to the public
good and have a connection to the community where the highway
is located;
The person being honored must be deceased;
The naming must be done without cost to the state. Costs for
signs and plaques must be paid by local or private sources;
The author or co-author of the measure must represent the
district in which the facility is located, and the measure
must identify the specific highway segment or structure being
named;
If the segment of highway is being named for a specific
individual or individuals, it must not exceed five miles in
length;
The proposed designation must reflect a community consensus
and be without local opposition; and
The proposed designation may not supersede an existing
designation unless the sponsor can document that a good faith
effort has uncovered no opposition to rescinding the prior
designation.
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This resolution designates the portion of SR 1 between the
California Boulevard exit and the
Santa Lucia Canyon Road/Floradale Road exit in Lompoc as the
Correctional Officer Scott Williams Memorial Highway. The
resolution further requests the Department of Transportation to
erect appropriate signs only upon receiving donations from
non-state sources sufficient to cover the cost.
COMMENTS:
1.Purpose of the resolution . By naming a portion of SR 1 for
Correctional Officer Williams, this resolution seeks to
memorialize his sacrifice in the line of duty and remind all
that the safety of law enforcement officers is a matter of
statewide and national concern.
2.Officer Williams' contributions . Upon graduating from high
school in 1986, Correctional Officer Williams served in the
United States Marine Corps, where he received numerous awards
for his outstanding service. Later as a reservist, Officer
Williams served in Operation Desert Storm and received the
"Marine of the Year" award. Following his military career,
Officer Williams returned home to Lompoc to serve his country
as a federal correctional officer at the Federal Bureau of
Prisons in Lompoc. Tragically, on April 3, 1997, Officer
Williams was violently murdered by an inmate. Thousands of
mourners, including the Attorney General of the United States,
attended his interment at Los Alamos Cemetery.
3.Consistent with committee's policy . This resolution is
consistent with all the provisions of the committee's policy
on highway designations.
POSITIONS: (Communicated to the Committee before noon on
Wednesday, April 27,
2011)
SUPPORT: California Correctional Peace Officers
Association (sponsor)
OPPOSED: None received.
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