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          Date of Hearing:   September 8, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                               Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
                    SCR 34 (Evans) - As Amended:  August 17, 2011

           SENATE VOTE  :   39-0
           
          SUBJECT  :  State Route 101

           SUMMARY  :  Designates the interchange of State Routes (SR) 101 
          and 12 as the Deputy Frank Trejo Memorial Interchange.  
          Specifically,  this bill  :  

          1)Recounts the life and career of Frank Trejo, a Sonoma County 
            Deputy Sheriff who lost his life in the line of duty.  

          2)Designates the interchange of SR 101 and SR 12 as the Deputy 
            Frank Trejo Memorial Interchange.  

          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 
            that special designation and, upon receiving donations from 
            nonstate sources covering that 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  :  Frank Trejo was a career lawman whose work spanned 35 
          years.  He first served as a police officer for the cities of 
          Lompoc and Tiburon before joining the Sonoma County Sheriff's 
          Office, where he served for 15 years.  Deputy Trejo was 
          affectionately known as the "old man" in the sheriff's office 
          and is credited with mentoring many younger officers over the 
          course of his 35-year career.  On March 29, 1995, Deputy Trejo 
          was shot and killed in the line of duty while investigating a 
          suspicious motor vehicle in his beat west of the city of Santa 
          Rosa.  Deputy Trejo is remembered as a loving husband to his 
          wife Barbara, as father to four children, and as grandfather and 
          great-grandfather.  He has been awarded the Gold Medal of Valor 
          for his sacrifice, Sonoma County Sheriff's Office highest award. 








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           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          Deputy James Ryan, President, Northern Chapter of the Peace 
          Officers Research Association of California

          Opposition 
           
          None on file

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