BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
ACR 76 (Chesbro)
As Amended August 26, 2011
Majority vote
TRANSPORTATION 11-1 APPROPRIATIONS 10-1
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|Ayes:|Bonnie Lowenthal, |Ayes:|Fuentes, Harkey, |
| |Jeffries, Achadjian, | |Bradford, |
| |Blumenfield, Buchanan, | |Charles Calderon, Campos, |
| |Eng, Galgiani, Logue, | |Gatto, Mitchell, Nielsen, |
| |Miller, Portantino, | |Solorio, Wagner |
| |Solorio | | |
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|Nays:|Norby |Nays:|Norby |
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SUMMARY : Designates one segment of State Route (SR) 101 as the
California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer Thomas R. Adams Memorial
Highway another segment of SR 101 as the CHP Officer Paul C.
Jarske Memorial Highway. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the lives and careers of Thomas Adams and Paul C.
Jarske, CHP officers who were killed in the line of duty.
2)Designates the westbound segment of SR 101 between postmile
102.00 and postmile 106.57 in Mendocino County as the CHP
Officer Thomas Adams Memorial Highway.
3)Designates the segment of SR 101 between Branscomb Road,
milepost marker 69.50 and milepost marker 74.50, in Mendocino
County as the CHP Officer Paul C. Jarske Memorial Highway.
4)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to
determine the costs of erecting the appropriate signs,
consistent with the signing requirements for the state highway
system, showing this special designation, and upon receiving
donations from non-state sources covering the cost, to erect
those signs.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating
and maintaining state highways. This includes the installation
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and maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Thomas Richard Adams was born in San Francisco in
1986. He was employed by a Humboldt County tree service before
graduating from the CHP Academy in 2009. After spending a year
and a half at the Oakland area office, Officer Adams was
transferred to the Garberville area, where he spent the
remainder of his career. On February 15, 2011, Officer Adams
was killed in the line of duty when his patrol car crossed over
the center lines of SR 101 near Piercy and was struck by an
oncoming pickup truck.
Paul Clyde Jarske was born in North Dakota in 1934. After being
honorably discharged from the Air Force in 1963, he joined the
California Department of Corrections before being inducted into
the CHP. He served in the Norwalk, Concord, Golden Gate and
Garberville areas. On February 24, 1981, his patrol car veered
off the road under extreme weather conditions and plummeted 100
feet before coming to rest underwater. Despite the rescue
efforts of bystanders, he succumbed to his injuries at the
hospital.
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093
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