BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: June 18, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
SCR 50 (Fuller) - As Amended: May 2, 2012
SENATE VOTE : 38-0
SUBJECT : State Route 99
SUMMARY : Designates the interchange of State Routes (SR) 99 and
119 as the Deputy Daniel Lee Archuleta Memorial Interchange.
Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the life and career of Daniel Lee Archuleta, a Kern
County Deputy Sheriff who lost his life in the line of duty.
2)Designates the interchange of SR 99 and SR 119 the Deputy
Daniel Lee Archuleta 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
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 : Unknown. This bill was withdrawn from the
Senate Appropriations Committee pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
COMMENTS : Daniel Lee Archuleta began employment with the Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Department in 2001 was hired by the
Kern County Sheriff's Department in 2002. He was assigned to
the Support Services Bureau, the Training Division, and the
Resource Pool, and also worked temporarily in the Court Services
Division. Deputy Archuleta transferred to the Law Enforcement
Bureau, South Area Substation Division, Taft Court on November
2, 2002, and on May 27, 2003, he entered the Field Training
Officer Program and was promoted to Deputy Sheriff II on October
4, 2003.
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Deputy Archuleta was killed on September 12, 2004, when his
patrol vehicle rolled over on Tupman Road, just north of the
west Kern County town of Tupman, while he was traveling south on
Tupman Road responding to an emergency call. A deputy from the
Kern County Sheriff's Department driving north on Tupman Road
found the battered patrol vehicle in the southbound lane of
Tupman Road, and Daniel Lee Archuleta was found dead at the
scene. California Highway Patrol investigative units from
Bakersfield and Fresno were called to the scene but were unable
to ascertain the cause of the accident.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093