Bill Text: CA ACR19 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Denise Moreno Ducheny Highway.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-02-23 - Referred to Com. on TRANS. [ACR19 Detail]
Download: California-2023-ACR19-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Concurrent Resolution
No. 19
| Introduced by Assembly Member Alvarez |
February 17, 2023 |
Relative to the Denise Moreno Ducheny Highway.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACR 19, as introduced, Alvarez.
Denise Moreno Ducheny Highway.
This measure would designate a portion of State Route 11, from the Interstate 905 interchange to the new Otay Mesa 2 Port of Entry, in the County of San Diego, as the Denise Moreno Ducheny Highway. The measure would 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.
Digest Key
Fiscal Committee: YESBill Text
WHEREAS, Denise Moreno Ducheny was born on March 21, 1952, and was first elected to represent the 40th District in the California State Senate in November of 2002, serving two terms until 2010; and
WHEREAS, Ducheny currently serves as the Senior Policy Advisor at the University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (USMEX); and
WHEREAS, Before being elected to the Senate, Ducheny served in the Assembly from 1994 to 2000 and on the Board of Trustees of the San Diego Community College District from 1990 to 1994; and
WHEREAS, Before serving in public office, Ducheny was an attorney in private practice and holds a B.A. in history from Pomona College and a J.D. from the Southwestern University School of Law; and
WHEREAS, While serving in each house of the Legislature, Ducheny was the first San Diegan, first woman, and the first Latino to chair the Budget Committee, serving as Chair for four years in each house; and
WHEREAS, While in the Senate, Ducheny served on multiple committees, including the Water, Transportation, Housing, and Judiciary committees, and was actively engaged in developing binational meetings of legislators from California with United States and Mexican state legislators along the length of the border and among the legislators of California, Baja California, and Baja California Sur; and
WHEREAS, While in the Assembly, Ducheny served as Chair of the Assembly Budget Committee between 1997 and 2000, and as Vice Chair in 1996, and also served as Chair of the Select Committee on California-Mexico Cooperation, as Cochair of the Special Committee on Welfare Reform, as Vice Chair of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, and as Vice Chair of the California Legislative Latino Caucus; and
WHEREAS, In 2014, in recognition of her dedication to the United States–Mexico relationship, Ducheny was presented with the Ohtli Award by the Mexican government and was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Board of Directors of the North American Development Bank, on which she continues to serve; and
WHEREAS, Senator Ducheny’s legislative accomplishments in the Senate include legislation to develop the California Workforce Development Board Strategic Plan, a statewide plan that invests in our state workers; the geothermal development bill that removed barriers in state law to allow for the development of geothermal energy; revisions of the California Tire Recycling Act, which required that information be provided on remediation activities for tire piles that pose a huge environmental threat in the border region; improvements to the Employee Housing Act for farm workers, which provided flexibility to local jurisdictions to increase their supply of farm work housing; and the Salton Sea Restoration Act, which established state policy for restoring that important environmental ecosystem; 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 Route 11, from the Interstate 905 interchange to the new Otay Mesa 2 Port of Entry, in the County of San Diego, as the Denise Moreno Ducheny 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.
