BILL NUMBER: SCR 79	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 23, 2012
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 21, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 21, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 1, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lieu
   (Coauthors: Senators Alquist, Anderson, Berryhill, Blakeslee,
Calderon, Cannella, Corbett, Correa, De León, DeSaulnier, Dutton,
Emmerson, Evans, Fuller, Gaines, Hancock, Hernandez, Huff, Kehoe, La
Malfa, Leno, Liu, Lowenthal, Negrete McLeod, Padilla, Pavley, Price,
Rubio, Runner, Steinberg, Vargas, Walters, Wolk, Wright, Wyland, and
Yee)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano,
Atkins, Beall, Bill Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos, Carter,
Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Davis, Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fong,
Furutani, Beth Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gorell, Grove,
Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones,
Lara, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Miller, Mitchell, Monning,
Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen, Olsen, Pan, Perea, John A. Pérez, V.
Manuel Pérez, Portantino, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Swanson, Torres,
Wagner, Williams, and Yamada)

                        MARCH 26, 2012

   Relative to the Honorable Jenny Oropeza Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 79, Lieu. Honorable Jenny Oropeza Memorial Overcrossing.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway
Route 1 in the County of Los Angeles as the Honorable Jenny Oropeza
Memorial Overcrossing. This 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 those costs, to erect those signs.



   WHEREAS, Jenny Oropeza was a lifelong public servant; and
   WHEREAS, Jenny Oropeza was active in her community and was elected
to the Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education, the
Long Beach City Council, the California State Assembly, and finally
to the California State Senate; and
   WHEREAS, During her time as a member of the California
Legislature, Jenny Oropeza was a champion for public transportation,
health care, education, clean air, equality, and prevention of
cancer; and
   WHEREAS, Former Senator Oropeza was so admired by her constituents
and community that since her death she has been honored by the
Democratic Women's Study Club in Long Beach, which posthumously
awarded her the Political Leadership Award. In future years the award
will be called the Jenny Oropeza Political Leadership Award.
Additionally, the Long Beach Community Hispanic Association (Centro
CHA) posthumously awarded Senator Oropeza the Create Change Community
Service Excellence Award, which will in future years be called the
Create Change: Jenny Oropeza Community Service Excellence Award; and
   WHEREAS, In recognition of former Senator Oropeza, the Long Beach
Lambda Democratic Club created the Jenny Oropeza Ally of the Year
Award, which was, similar to the two previously mentioned awards,
first awarded in 2011; and
   WHEREAS, As a tribute to former Senator Oropeza's dedication to
fostering protections for key state public health programs, the Los
Angeles County Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, in joint
collaboration with the six other California-based Komen affiliates,
known as "the California Collaborative," established the Senator
Jenny Oropeza Public Policy Internship position; and
   WHEREAS, The City of Long Beach named the community center in
Cesar E. Chavez Park the Jenny Oropeza Community Center and the Los
Angeles Unified School District dedicated the Jenny Oropeza Global
Studies Academy at the Rancho Dominguez Preparatory School; and
   WHEREAS, Shortly after taking office in 2000, then Assembly Member
Oropeza, became aware that the Alameda Corridor would open in 2002
and all the planned bridges, designed to prevent cars from having to
wait for trains to pass at street level, would be completed, except
the bridge on State Highway Route 1 (Pacific Coast Highway) in the
community of Wilmington, the busiest route along the Alameda
Corridor; and
   WHEREAS, At the time, State Highway Route 1 bisected the Equilon
Refinery and was therefore the most complicated and expensive bridge
to build. Furthermore, there was not enough funding available to
complete the bridge on State Highway Route 1; and
   WHEREAS, Former Assembly Member Oropeza brought together the
interested parties, including the California Department of
Transportation, the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, the
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Equilon Refinery, the
Union Pacific Railroad, and the City of Los Angeles to solve this
problem and was able to help facilitate $107 million in funding from
a combination of sources which included state transportation funds,
state Proposition 116 bond funds, federal demonstration funds,
Metropolitan Transportation Authority funds, and railroad funds; and
   WHEREAS, Former Assembly Member Oropeza was also successful in her
pursuit to have the long bridge built. This design not only
eliminated the train and car conflicts on the Alameda Corridor, but
also eliminated these same conflicts on Alameda Street and the San
Pedro Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
portion of State Highway Route 1 that runs between Coil Street and
the east side of the main entrance to the Tesoro Refinery, in the
community of Wilmington in the County of Los Angeles, as the
Honorable Jenny Oropeza Memorial Overcrossing; 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 the cost, to erect those signs; and be it further

   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.