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          Date of Hearing:   January 13, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                               Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
                    SCR 60 (Knight) - As Amended:  August 27, 2013

           SENATE VOTE  :  36-0
           
          SUBJECT  :  Memorial Highway Naming

           SUMMARY  :  Names a portion of State Route (SR) 14 in Los Angeles  
          County as the Lance Corporal Javier Olvera Memorial Highway.   
          Specifically,  this bill  :   

          1)Recounts the life of Lance Corporal Javier Olvera, who was  
            deployed with 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines to Afghanistan where  
            on August 8, 2009, he was killed in action by an improvised  
            explosive device.  

          2)Designates a portion of SR 14 in the City of Palmdale from the  
            south junction of SR 14 and SR 138 to West Avenue O8 as the  
            Lance Corporal Javier Olvera Memorial Highway.  

          3)Requests the California Department of Transportation  
            (Caltrans) to determine the cost of appropriate signs,  
            consistent with the signing requirements for a state highway  
            system, showing the special designation and, upon receiving  
            donations from non-state 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  :  Costs to make and erect the appropriate signs  
          are covered by donations.  

           COMMENTS  :  Javier Olvera grew up in the San Fernando Valley and  
          as a teenager moved with his family to Palmdale.  After  
          graduating from R. Rex Parris High School in 2006, he enlisted  
          in the U.S. Marine Corps where he served as rifleman and radio  
          operator.  He was deployed to Iraq during 2007 and 2008, and  
          then to Afghanistan in 2009.  Lance Corporal Olvera died on  
          August 8, 2009, at the age 20 while conducting combat operations  
          in Helmand province of Afghanistan on the Pakistani border.  








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          This resolution designates the portion of SR 14 from its south  
          junction with SR 138 to West Avenue O8 in the City of Palmdale  
          as the Lance Corporal Javier Olvera Memorial Highway.  This  
          resolution further requests that Caltrans erect appropriate  
          signs upon receiving donations from non-state sources to cover  
          the costs.  

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          None received
           
            Opposition 
           
          None received

           
          Analysis Prepared by  :   Victoria Alvarez / TRANS. / (916) 319-  
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