Bill Text: CA SCR59 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: William J. "Pete" Knight Veterans Home of
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-09-11 - Referred to Com. on TRANS. Joint Rule 62(a) file notice suspended. (Page 3197.) Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SCR59 Detail]
Download: California-2013-SCR59-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SCR 59 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 26, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Senator Knight
JULY 1, 2013
Relative to the William J. "Pete" Knight Veterans Home.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SCR 59, as amended, Knight. William J. "Pete" Knight Veterans Home
of California-Lancaster.
This measure would recognize the location of the William J. "Pete"
Knight Veterans Home of California-Lancaster in Los Angeles County
along State Highway Route 14 (SR 14) near the exit for West Avenue "I"
in the City of Lancaster and request the erection of 4 directional
signs at that exit indicating the location of the home. The measure
would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost
of appropriate signs and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
Fiscal committee: yes.
WHEREAS, The William J. "Pete" Knight Veterans Home of
California-Lancaster (Veterans Home )is
(Veterans Home) is a 60-bed Residential Care Facility
for the Elderly, residential care facility for the
elderly, an assisted living facility that serves veterans, where
all health care needs, meals, transportation, and activities for
residents are provided in partnership with the VA Greater Los Angeles
Healthcare System; and
WHEREAS, The Veterans Home was named in honor and memory of the
late Senator William J. "Pete" Knight, a former United States Air
Force Colonel who spent 32 years in dedicated service to his country,
flew more than 253 missions in Vietnam, was a fighter pilot, test
pilot, astronaut, and legislator, and who was also considered one of
the Veterans Home's strongest and most vocal advocates when he served
in the California State Senate; and
WHEREAS, The Veterans Home is located in the picturesque
high-desert area of southern California, just off the Antelope Valley
Freeway (State Route 14), and is only an hour's drive north from the
San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles; and
WHEREAS, The Veterans Home provides California veterans with a
living environment that protects their dignity and contributes to
their feeling of self-reliance and self-worth; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby recognizes the
William J. "Pete" Knight Veterans Home of California-Lancaster in Los
Angeles County and its location along State Highway Route 14 (SR 14)
near the exit for West Avenue "I" in the City of Lancaster and
requests the erection of four directional signs as follows or as
otherwise consistent with the signing requirements for the state
highway system: two of the signs, one northbound and one southbound
on SR 14, to be placed before the exit for West Avenue "I" to read:
"Senator William "William J. "Pete"
Knight Memorial Veterans Home, This Exit"; the
other two signs to be placed at the stop signs after exiting the
freeway either northbound or southbound to read: "Senator
William "William J. "Pete" Knight
Memorial Veterans Home, Left Turn" and "Senator
William "William J. "Pete" Knight
Memorial Veterans Home, Right Turn"; 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 and, upon receiving
donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to
erect those signs; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Department Director
of Transportation and to the author for appropriate distribution.
