BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: June 16, 2014
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
ACR 156 (Weber) - As Introduced: June 2, 2014
SUBJECT : Itliong-Vera Cruz Memorial Bridge
SUMMARY : Designates the overpass on South Woodman Street that
crosses State Route 54 in San Diego as the "Itliong-Vera Cruz
Memorial Bridge. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the lives and accomplishments of Larry Itliong and
Philip Vera Cruz.
2)Designates the overpass on South Woodman Street that crosses
State Route 54 in San Diego as the "Itliong-Vera Cruz Memorial
Bridge."
3)Requests that the Department of Transportation (Caltrans)
determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this 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, including the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown, but the measure requests that Caltrans
only erect the appropriate signage upon receiving donations from
non-state sources covering the cost.
COMMENTS : Larry Itliong was a Filipino American labor leader
who founded the Filipino Farm Labor Union (FFLU) in 1956. Born
in 1913 in the Philippines, Mr. Itliong immigrated to the United
States in 1929. He was a self-taught labor leader and was
instrumental in leading protests in California and Alaska. Mr.
Itliong was also the President of the Agricultural Workers
Organizing Committee and, after he founded the FFLU, he became
the assistant director of the United Farm Workers Organizing
Committee which eventually became the United Farm Workers Union.
Philip Vera Cruz was also a Filipino American labor leader as
well as a farm worker and a leader and activist for the Asian
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American civil rights movement. Mr. Vera Cruz was born in
Ilocos Sur in the Philippines in 1904 and attend Gonzaga
University in Spokane, Washington. He joined the National Farm
Labor Union which was affiliated with the American Federation of
Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations in the 1950's.
Larry Itliong and Philip Vera Cruz and other Filipino American
farm workers were instrumental in starting the 1965 grape strike
that set the stage for the boycott that would lead C�sar Ch�vez
and thousands of farmworker families to create the United Farm
Workers.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Janet Dawson / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093