BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: April 19, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
ACR 149 (Hall) - As Introduced: April 5, 2010
SUBJECT : State Route 405
SUMMARY : Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 405 as the
Kevin Murray Highway. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the life and career of Kevin Murray, a state
legislator who served as chair of the both Assembly
Transportation Committee and the Senate Transportation
Committee.
2)Designates the segment of SR 405 between SR 10 and SR 90 as
the Kevin Murray Highway.
3)Request 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 covering the cost, to erect those signs.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility to operate
and maintain state highways. This includes the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Kevin Murray was first elected to the California
Legislature in 1994, to represent the 47th Assembly District.
After serving two terms in the Assembly, he was elected to the
State Senate, as a representative of the 26th Senate District.
His final term expired on November 30, 2006.
As an Assembly Member, Kevin Murray served in a number of
prominent roles, including the Chair of the Assembly Committee
on Transportation, Assistant Democratic Floor Leader, Majority
Whip, a member of the powerful Assembly Committee on Rules, as
well as a member of the Assembly Committee on Utilities and
Commerce.
Throughout his career, Kevin Murray has been a champion in the
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areas of solar energy; consumer privacy; urban parks; economic
development; women's, senior, and civil rights; health care
access; and transportation. His Senate Bill 1, the landmark
"Million Solar Roofs" bill, provided over $3 billion to expand
the use of solar energy in California and he was instrumental in
crafting Proposition 12 and Proposition 40, two measures
approved by voters that provided $4.6 billion for state and
local parks programs.
Kevin Murray was one of the first legislators in the country to
identify and address the need to protect consumers on the
Internet. He led a forceful effort to stop Internet-related
crime by crafting a number of first-in-the-nation laws to
protect consumers from identity theft, e-mail spam, and Internet
spyware.
In the Senate, Kevin Murray served as Chair of the Committee on
Appropriations, the Select Committee on the Entertainment
Industry, and the Subcommittee on Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He also served as Chair
of the California Legislative Black Caucus, the Senate
Democratic Caucus, the Senate Committee on Transportation and
Housing, and the Senate Committee on Elections, Reapportionment
and Constitutional Amendments.
Technical concern : The route segment specified by this bill
already has a memorial dedication for Nathan Shapell, the former
chair of the Little Hoover Commission. The author should work
with Caltrans to identify a nearby segment that is available for
naming.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None received
Opposition
None received
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093