BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SCR 30
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SENATE THIRD READING
SCR 30 (Anderson)
As Amended June 14, 2011
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :37-0
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 a segment of State Route (SR) 15 as the
California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer Dan N. Benavides
Memorial Highway. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the life and career of Dan Benavides, a CHP officer
who lost his life in the line of duty.
2)Designates the segment of SR 15 between Gopher Canyon Road
milepost marker 40.84 and the Old Highway 395 overcrossing
milepost marker 43.28 in San Diego County as the CHP Officer
Dan N. Benavides Memorial Highway.
3)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) 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 the cost, to erect those
signs.
SCR 30
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EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating
and maintaining state highways. This includes the installation
and maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown. This bill was withdrawn from the
Senate Appropriations Committee pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
COMMENTS : Daniel Nava Benavides was born in Monterrey, Mexico
and raised in San Jose, California. He graduated from Andrew
Hill High School in San Jose in 1989, and then attended Cuesta
College in San Luis Obispo. In 1997, Officer Benavides,
graduated from the California Highway Patrol Academy as a pilot
officer. After 33 months of service in the Monterey area,
Officer Benavides served in San Jose from 1999 to 2000, in San
Diego from 2000 to 2003, in Oceanside from 2003 to 2005, and in
the Border Division Thermal Air Operations Unit from 2005 to
2010. On May 7, 2010, Officer Benavides began his shift working
speed enforcement for the air operations unit. Approximately
two hours later, Officer Benavides was in route to State Highway
Route 8 to work speed enforcement in the El Centro area when his
Cessna 206 airplane crashed in a remote area of the Anza-Borrego
Desert in Borrego Springs, California.
Officer Benavides was a hard-working, dedicated officer who
loved his job and enjoyed the people with whom he worked. His
greatest joys were his wife and daughter and spending time with
friends and family. Officer Benavides is survived by his wife,
Megan, their daughter, Madeline, his mother, Consuelo, and
stepfather Forrest Hilton.
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093
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