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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