BILL NUMBER: AB 2498AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 21, 2014 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Achadjian FEBRUARY 21, 2014 An act to add Section 101.14 to the Streets and Highways Code, relating to highways. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2498, as amended, Achadjian. Highway signs: veterans' memorials and monuments. Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation is in full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law provides for placement of signs on state highways, as specified. This bill would require the department toerect, on the state highway system,affix, on National Purple Heart Trail memorial signs existing as of January 1, 2015, directional signs to each veterans' memorial ormonument,monument located within three miles of State Highway 101, upon receiving funds from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost. The bill would prohibit the department from affixing more than one directional sign on a National Purple Heart Trail memorial sign located on State Highway 101. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 101.14 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read: 101.14. The department shallerect, on the state highway system,affix, on National Purple Heart Trail memorial signs existing as of January 1, 2015, directional signs to each veterans' memorial ormonument,monument located within three miles of State Highway 101, upon receiving funds from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost. The department shall not affix more than one directional sign on a National Purple Heart Trail memorial sign located on State Highway 101.