Amended in Assembly June 17, 2014

Amended in Assembly May 6, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 118

Introduced by Assembly Member Logue

March 6, 2014

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 118—Relative to the California Small Businesses Highway.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

ACR 118, as amended, Logue. California Small Businesses Highway.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 99 in begin delete Sacramento and Sutter Counties end delete begin insert Sutter County end insert as the California Small Businesses Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.

Fiscal committee: yes.

WHEREAS, The month of June is celebrated as California Small
Business Month, in recognition of the tremendous contributions
small businesses make to the economic strength of our nation and
state; and

WHEREAS, The nation’s 28 million small businesses are the
job creation engine of the American economy, responsible for
one-half of all private sector jobs, and the source of roughly 70
percent of all new jobs in the last decade; and

WHEREAS, California is home to three and one-half million
of these small businesses, accounting for 99 percent of the state’s
employers and 52 percent of the state’s workforce, and producing
more than one-half of California’s gross domestic product; and

WHEREAS, California is home to the most innovative and
competitive businesses in the world, placing the state consistently
among the top 10 economies in the world; and

WHEREAS, California’s small businesses are critical to the
economic health of the state because small businesses are
innovative forces in the marketplace and are among the most likely
to take risks to create new technologies and industries; and

WHEREAS, A commitment to small businesses and support
for small-scale private-sector job creators are among the most
promising strategies to enhance California’s human capital, expand
job opportunities, and increase the state’s competitive advantage
in the global marketplace; and

WHEREAS, It is appropriate to recognize the important role of
small businesses in California’s economy by dedicating a portion
of State Highway 99 as the California Small Businesses Highway;
now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That begin insert the Legislature hereby designates end insert the
portion of State Highway Route 99 between begin delete State Highway Route
5 in Sacramento County and State Highway Route 20 in Yuba City
is hereby designated end delete begin insert Hull Road and Stewart Road in Sutter County end insert
as the California Small Businesses Highway; and be it further

Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested
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; and be it
further

Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies
of this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author
for appropriate distribution.