Bill Text: CA SCR87 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: The Luiseño Highway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-18 - Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SCR87 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SCR87-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 87	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 6, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Anderson

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   Relative to the Luiseño Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 87, as amended, Anderson. The Luiseño Highway.
   This measure would designate the portion of State Highway Route 76
southeast of Lake Henshaw as the Luiseño 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.
   Fiscal committee: yes.


   
   WHEREAS, Archeological records show that ancestors of the Luiseño
Indians were among the original inhabitants of San Diego County
living along the Pacific coast and inland in north San Diego County
for 10,000 years; and  
   WHEREAS, The Luiseño called themselves Payómkawichum, also spelled
Payómkowishum, meaning "People of the West;" and  
   WHEREAS, In what is now San Diego County, the territory of the
Payómkawichum ran west to east across a wide swath of the northern
portions of the county. Clans built villages and traveled from the
Pacific Ocean, near the present-day Cities of Oceanside, Carlsbad,
and La Jolla, to the east, where the Cities of San Marcos, Vista, and
Fallbrook, and the communities of Rainbow, Bonsall, Valley Center,
and Pauma Valley now exist, to Palomar Mountain and the Buena Vista
Mountains of the Peninsular Range; and  
   WHEREAS, The Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, named after King
Luis of Spain, was founded on June 13, 1798, by Father Fermin
Francisco de Lasuèn, on the San Luis Rey River in the current City of
Oceanside; and  
   WHEREAS, The Payómkawichum became known as the Luiseño Indians due
to the location of their villages, which came under Spanish
occupation within the jurisdiction of the Mission San Luis Rey de
Francia; and  
   WHEREAS, At the time of contact with the Spanish, more than 43
Luiseño villages were concentrated along the 55-mile stretch of the
San Luis Rey River, from its mouth at Mount Palomar and the Hot
Springs Mountains to where the river discharges into the Pacific
Ocean; and  
   WHEREAS, The Luiseño Indians built trails along the San Luis Rey
River, connecting their villages to visit relatives, exchange goods
and food, share ceremonies, and perform rituals; and 

   WHEREAS, As the most direct route from the mountains to the coast,
the Luiseño trails along the river also served as seasonal migratory
routes for the native people, and accommodated Spanish missionary
and militia travel among mission outposts, farmlands, and tribal
villages; and 
   WHEREAS, Construction on the road following the San Luis Rey River
and the Luiseño trails  , in the County of San Diego, 
began in 1930, although the paving initially ended at the Pala Indian
Reservation; and
   WHEREAS, The original road was named legislative Route 195 in
1935. Then in 1965, the state highways were renumbered and
legislative Route 195 was legally designated as State Highway Route
76, extending from United States Route 101 to State Highway Route 79;
and 
   WHEREAS, Today, there are four Luiseño Indian reservations located
on, or connected to, State Highway Route 76. They are the La Jolla
Band of Luiseño Indians, the Pala Band of Mission Indians, the Pauma
Band of Mission Indians, and the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians; and

   WHEREAS, The original trails constructed by the Luiseño Indians,
 living and traveling   who lived and traveled
 along the San Luis Rey River, also served as the corridor of
travel for the Spanish explorers, missionaries,  and
 militia, Mexican Nationals, American military forces, and
European immigrants; and
   WHEREAS, These trails predated the modern road ultimately
designated by the State of California as State Highway Route 76; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That, the Legislature hereby designates the
portion of State Highway Route 76 running west to east from
Interstate Highway 15 to State Highway Route 79, southeast of Lake
Henshaw, as the Luiseño 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 the cost, to erect those signs; and be it further

   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.