General Updates

Federal Correctional Officer Scott Williams Memorial Highway - update

 

SCR 28 (Strickland) – designating a portion of State Hwy 1 near Lompoc as the Federal Correctional Officer Scott Williams Memorial Highway.

Officer Williams was murdered by an inmate at the US Penitentiary, Lompoc in 1997.

Passed CA Assembly Transportation Committee today with the following vote:

Ayes: Bonnie Lowenthal, Jeffries, Achadjian, Blumenfield, Buchanan, Eng, Galgiani, Logue, Miller, Portantino, Solorio

Noes: Norby

No Vote Recorded: Bonilla, Furutani

The bill will be set for hearing in Assembly Appropriations and then the Assembly Floor before returning to the Senate Floor next week for a final concurrence vote.

No dates announced for the hearing or the floor votes yet.

We will send out the info as soon as we get it.

Thanks to everyone involved – especially our Legislative Department for guiding this bill through the process!