BILL NUMBER: ACR 91INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Alejo JUNE 19, 2015 Relative to the Dolores Huerta Highway. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST ACR 91, as introduced, Alejo. Dolores Huerta Highway. This measure would designate a portion of State Highway Route 152 in the City of Watsonville and the County of Santa Cruz as the Dolores Huerta 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 that cost, to erect those signs. Fiscal committee: yes. WHEREAS, Dolores Huerta, born April 10, 1930, is a labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with Csar Chvez, cofounded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), and gained national attention after she led a boycott of table grapes in the 1960s; and WHEREAS, Dolores Huerta has recieved numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for the rights of workers, immigrants, and women, including the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award, the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom; and WHEREAS, Dolores Huerta spent time in the City of Watsonville organizing farmworkers for fair treatment; and WHEREAS, Dolores Huerta led a boycott of table grapes in the 1960s, which was supported by an estimated 17 million Americans and brought the plight of farmworkers into the public eye, leading to the passage of the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, which allowed farmworkers the right to organize and bargain for better working conditions and higher wages; and WHEREAS, Dolores Huerta also helped lead a 10-year effort to gain amnesty for farmworkers who had lived, worked, and paid taxes in the United States, resulting in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which granted amnesty to 1.4 million farmworkers; and WHEREAS, After leaving the UFW in 2002, Dolores Huerta began focusing her attention on a host of other issues, including immigration, quality education for Latino children, feminism, equality for women, and reproductive freedom; and WHEREAS, As the president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, Dolores Huerta organizes forums and programs that focus on social justice and public policy issues, and encourages people to participate in elections to help choose their representatives; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the portion of State Highway Route 152 from Carlton Road to Main Street to the junction with State Highway Route 1 in the City of Watsonville and the County of Santa Cruz as the Dolores Huerta 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 that cost, to erect those signs; and be it further Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for appropriate distribution.