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Senate panel advances bill to create highway signage fund aimed at name equity
Summary
Sen. Laird’s SB 467 would create a Highway Signage Fund to help cover costs of naming signs after underrepresented people; committee advanced the bill as amended and kept it on call pending absent members.
Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson Laird presented Senate Bill 467 to a Senate committee, proposing a Highway Signage Fund to address an imbalance in who is memorialized on California roads.
The bill’s lead author told the committee that roughly 82% of highways, roads and bridges named in California currently honor men and that the fund would provide money to help pay for signage when a naming resolution is approved. Senator Laird said the fund would not change the existing approval process — naming would still require the usual legislative…
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