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CONSENT
Bill No: SCR 28
Author: Strickland (R)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 9-0, 5/3/11
AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Harman, Huff, Kehoe, Lowenthal,
Pavley, Rubio, Simitian
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
SUBJECT : Correctional Officer Scott Williams Memorial
Highway
SOURCE : American Federation of Government Employees,
Local
3048, U.S. Penitentiary Lompoc
California Correctional Peace Officers
Association
Corrections USA
Council of Prison Locals, #33
DIGEST : This resolution designates a portion of State
Highway Route 1 in Santa Barbara County as the"
Correctional Officer Scott Williams Memorial Highway."
ANALYSIS : 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
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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.
This resolution designates the portion of State Highway
Route 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.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 5/19/11)
American Federation of Government Employees, Local 3048,
U.S. Penitentiary Lompoc (co-source)
California Correctional Peace Officers Association
(co-source)
Corrections USA (co-source)
Council of Prison Locals, #33 (co-source)
JJA:do 5/19/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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