Assembly Concurrent Resolution 171, as introduced, by Assemblyman Ted Lempert.
General Subject: Military Servicewomen's Memorial Highway.
This measure would designate a specified segment of State Highway Route 101 as the Military Servicewomen's Memorial Highway.
The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect appropriate plaques and markers.
Fiscal committee: yes.
WHEREAS, Women have been serving in the defense of the United States since its founding over 220 years ago, often when duty assignments and promotion potential were severely limited, when family responsibility and military careers were not compatible, when women were not entitled to the same benefits and legal protection as men, and when women who died in the line of duty were not entitled to a military burial; and
WHEREAS, Despite defending this nation both in times of peace and during war, contributions of these women have gone largely unrecognized and un-rewarded; and
WHEREAS, During the Revolutionary War, women heroically provided medical aid to soldiers, which led to women becoming official members of the United States military through the Army Nurse Corps and the Navy Nurse Corps; and
WHEREAS, Women made up 7 percent, or 41,000 members, of the United States armed forces in the Persian Gulf War; and
WHEREAS, Over 2,000,000 women have served the United States as members of the military; and
WHEREAS, Women continue to serve their country within all branches of the military; and
WHEREAS, No memorial currently exists in the State of California to commemorate the services of these courageous women; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the segment of State Highway Route 101 between the Ralston Ave. and the Santa Clara County Line is hereby officially designated the Military Servicewomen's Memorial Highway; and be it further
Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers, consistent with the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing the special designation and, upon receiving donations from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect those plaques and markers; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit a copy of this resolution to the Director of Transportation.
