Bill Text: CA ACR142 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Ventura County Deputy Sheriff Peter Aguirre, Jr.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-11 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 83, Statutes of 2016. [ACR142 Detail]

Download: California-2015-ACR142-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 142	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  83
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 11, 2016
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  JUNE 30, 2016
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 11, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams
   (Coauthor: Senator Jackson)

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   Relative to the Ventura County Deputy Sheriff Peter Aguirre, Jr.
Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 142, Williams. Ventura County Deputy Sheriff Peter Aguirre,
Jr. Memorial Highway.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway
Route 33 in the County of Ventura as the Ventura County Deputy
Sheriff Peter Aguirre, Jr. 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 the cost, to erect
those signs.



   WHEREAS, Deputy Sheriff Peter Aguirre, Jr. was a devoted husband
to his wife Dina and father to his two-year-old daughter, Gabi; and
   WHEREAS, Deputy Sheriff Peter Aguirre, Jr. studied for six years
in college and planned to become a schoolteacher, but shortly before
his death, switched to law enforcement studies; and
   WHEREAS, Deputy Sheriff Peter Aguirre, Jr. served with the Ventura
County Sheriff's Department for two years and ten months; and
   WHEREAS, On July 17, 1996, when Deputy Sheriff Peter Aguirre, Jr.
was 26 years old, he responded to a domestic violence call at a home
in the Ojai Valley community of Meiners Oaks in Ventura County. As
Peter was approaching the home, he was ambushed and shot, and died as
a result of the injury; and
   WHEREAS, As a peace officer, Deputy Sheriff Peter Aguirre, Jr.
gave his life to the citizens of Ventura County and the great State
of California; 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 33 in the County of Ventura from West
Ojai Avenue at post mile 11.21 to Fairview Road at post mile 12.8 as
the Ventura County Deputy Sheriff Peter Aguirre, Jr. Memorial
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.