BILL NUMBER: ACR 91	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Alejo

                        JUNE 19, 2015

   Relative to the Dolores Huerta Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 91, as introduced, Alejo. Dolores Huerta Highway.
   This measure would designate a portion of State Highway Route 152
in the City of Watsonville and the County of Santa Cruz as the
Dolores Huerta 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 that cost, to erect those signs.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, Dolores Huerta, born April 10, 1930, is a labor leader
and civil rights activist who, along with C�sar Ch�vez, cofounded the
National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United
Farm Workers of America (UFW), and gained national attention after
she led a boycott of table grapes in the 1960s; and
   WHEREAS, Dolores Huerta has recieved numerous awards for her
community service and advocacy for the rights of workers, immigrants,
and women, including the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding
American Award, the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights, and the
Presidential Medal of Freedom; and
   WHEREAS, Dolores Huerta spent time in the City of Watsonville
organizing farmworkers for fair treatment; and
   WHEREAS, Dolores Huerta led a boycott of table grapes in the
1960s, which was supported by an estimated 17 million Americans and
brought the plight of farmworkers into the public eye, leading to the
passage of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, which
allowed farmworkers the right to organize and bargain for better
working conditions and higher wages; and
   WHEREAS, Dolores Huerta also helped lead a 10-year effort to gain
amnesty for farmworkers who had lived, worked, and paid taxes in the
United States, resulting in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of
1986, which granted amnesty to 1.4 million farmworkers; and
   WHEREAS, After leaving the UFW in 2002, Dolores Huerta began
focusing her attention on a host of other issues, including
immigration, quality education for Latino children, feminism,
equality for women, and reproductive freedom; and
   WHEREAS, As the president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation,
Dolores Huerta organizes forums and programs that focus on social
justice and public policy issues, and encourages people to
participate in elections to help choose their representatives; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
portion of State Highway Route 152 from Carlton Road to Main Street
to the junction with State Highway Route 1 in the City of Watsonville
and the County of Santa Cruz as the Dolores Huerta 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 that 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.