Bill Text: CA ACR100 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 46-24-1)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-16 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 116, Statutes of 2016. [ACR100 Detail]

Download: California-2015-ACR100-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 100	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 2, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Travis Allen
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Achadjian,   Alejo,   Arambula,  
Atkins,   Baker,   Bigelow,   Bloom, 
 Bonilla,   Bonta,   Brough,   Brown,
  Burke,   Calderon,   Campos,  
Chang,   Chávez,   Chiu,   Chu, 
 Cooley,   Cooper,   Dababneh,  
Dahle,   Daly,   Dodd,   Eggman, 
 Frazier,   Gallagher,   Cristina Garcia, 
 Eduardo Garcia,   Gatto,   Gipson,  
Gomez,   Gonzalez,   Gray,   Grove, 
 Hadley,   Harper,   Holden,   Irwin,
  Jones-Sawyer,   Kim,   Lackey, 
 Levine,   Linder,   Lopez,  
Maienschein,   Mathis,   Mayes,   McCarty,
  Medina,   Melendez,   Mullin, 
 Nazarian,   Obernolte,   O'Donnell,  
Olsen,   Patterson,   Quirk,   Rendon,
  Rodriguez,   Salas,   Steinorth, 
 Mark Stone,   Thurmond,   Ting,  
Wagner,   Waldron,   Weber,  Wilk, 
 and Wood   ) 

                        AUGUST 17, 2015

   Relative to the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 100, as amended, Travis Allen. Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway.

   This measure would designate a portion of Interstate 405 in the
County of Orange as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial 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, As the son of a captain in the Los Angeles County Fire
Department, the grandson of a smokejumper, and the eighth firefighter
in the Woyjeck family, Kevin Woyjeck knew from an early age that he
wanted to be a firefighter and was laser-focused on achieving that
goal; and
   WHEREAS, Kevin grew up in Seal Beach, California, and attended
McGaugh Elementary School in Seal Beach and McAuliffe Middle School
and Los Alamitos High School, both in Los Alamitos, California; and
   WHEREAS, Kevin was a very active person who loved the outdoors
from an early age and could often be found fishing or diving anywhere
from Seal Beach to Laguna Beach; and
   WHEREAS, Kevin spent every summer for nine years as a Seal Beach
Junior Lifeguard; and
   WHEREAS, When he was 15 years old, Kevin joined the Los Angeles
County Fire Department Explorer Program, a program that he loved
because the firefighters taught him so much about the fire department
and station etiquette; and
   WHEREAS, Kevin became an emergency medical technician while in
high school and worked on an ambulance crew shortly after graduating;
and
   WHEREAS, Kevin had extensive training as a firefighter, having
taken firefighting classes at Santa Ana College, El Camino College
Structure Fire Academy, and the Department of Forestry and Fire
Protection Academy in San Luis Obispo; and
   WHEREAS, Kevin also spent a season in South Dakota, where he
joined the Johnson Valley Volunteer Fire Department and performed
indirect wildland firefighting for the South Dakota Wildland Fire
Division as part of a Type 2-IA Handcrew; and
   WHEREAS, In April 2013, Kevin was honored to join the Granite
Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of 20 young men in top condition,
based in Prescott, Arizona, who had direct wildland firefighting
responsibilities with the ability to provide service anywhere in the
nation; and
   WHEREAS, After successfully fighting fires and saving lives and
property in New Mexico and Arizona, Kevin and the other members of
the crew responded to an out-of-control fire in Yarnell, Arizona, on
June 30, 2013; and
   WHEREAS, Nineteen of the twenty young men in the Granite Mountain
Hotshots tragically lost their lives in the fire, including Kevin;
and
   WHEREAS, Kevin always had a smile on his face and, although he was
taken at 21 years of age, he lived and loved a full life's worth;
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 Interstate 405 between postmile 24.178 and postmile 20.4
in the County of Orange as the Kevin Woyjeck Memorial Highway; and be
it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the
requirements of the state highway system showing this special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
sufficient to cover the 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.