Bill Text: CA SCR90 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Tuskegee Airmen Highway.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 51-26)

Status: (Passed) 2012-08-31 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 104, Statutes of 2012. [SCR90 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SCR90-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 90	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  104
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 29, 2012
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 27, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 27, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 22, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 6, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 26, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 25, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Anderson
   (Coauthors: Senators DeSaulnier, Dutton, Price, Runner, and
Wright)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bradford, Carter, Hagman, Hall,
Huffman, Mitchell, Portantino, Swanson, Williams, Achadjian, Alejo,
Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, Bill Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield,
Bonilla, Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Chesbro,
Conway, Cook, Davis, Dickinson, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes,
Furutani, Beth Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gorell, Grove,
Halderman, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Jeffries,
Jones, Knight, Lara, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mansoor, Mendoza,
Miller, Monning, Morrell, Nielsen, Pan, Perea, John A. Pérez, V.
Manuel Pérez, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Torres, Valadao, Wagner,
Wieckowski, and Yamada)

                        MAY 14, 2012

   Relative to the Tuskegee Airmen Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 90, Anderson. Tuskegee Airmen Highway.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway
Route 15 in the County of San Diego as the Tuskegee Airmen Highway.
The measure would request that the Department of Transportation
determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
covering that cost, to erect those signs.



   WHEREAS, The United States Army Air Corps formed the 332nd Fighter
Group and the 477th Medium Bombardment Group at Tuskegee Institute
to train African American fighter pilots who, until that time, had
not been accepted into pilot training programs in the military; and
   WHEREAS, The Tuskegee Airmen were sent to the European Theatre in
1943 and served in combat in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe; and
   WHEREAS, At the end of World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen were
credited with destroying 261 enemy aircraft, damaging 148 enemy
aircraft, destroying or damaging 940 units of enemy ground
transportation, flying 15,553 combat sorties in 1,578 missions over
North Africa, Sicily, and Europe, and conducting more than 200 bomber
escort missions; and
   WHEREAS, The Tuskegee Airmen unit, including its officers and
enlisted personnel, received three Presidential Unit Citations, 150
Distinguished Flying Cross and Legion of Merit awards, the Red Star
of Yugoslavia, nine Purple Hearts, 14 Bronze Stars, and more than 700
Air Medals and Oak Leaf Cluster awards; and
   WHEREAS, Sixty-six of the Tuskegee Airmen were killed in combat,
and another 33 were shot down and held as prisoners of war; and
   WHEREAS, The unqualified success of the Tuskegee Airmen helped
lead to the eventual integration of the United States Armed Forces;
and
   WHEREAS, The record of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II was
accomplished by individuals who bravely accepted the challenge and
proudly displayed their skill and patriotism in spite of great
adversity at home and abroad; and
   WHEREAS, The Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. is an education and community
service organization dedicated to maintaining the traditions of the
Tuskegee Airmen and preserving the legacy of the first generation of
African American military aviators of World War II with 42 chapters
throughout the United States, and has consistently provided
inspiration, motivation, mentoring, and role models for elementary,
middle, and high school students in this country; 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 15 between Miramar Road (milepost
marker 14.285) and Mercy Road (milepost marker 17.311), in the County
of San Diego, as the Tuskegee Airmen 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 Department of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.