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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SCR 79
Author: Lieu (D), et al.
Amended: 8/21/12
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMM. : 8-0, 5/8/12
AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Kehoe, Lowenthal, Pavley, Rubio,
Simitian, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Harman
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
SENATE FLOOR : 33-0, 5/25/12 (Consent)
AYES: Alquist, Anderson, Berryhill, Blakeslee, Cannella,
Corbett, Correa, De León, DeSaulnier, Dutton, Emmerson,
Evans, Fuller, Gaines, Harman, Hernandez, Huff, La Malfa,
Leno, Lieu, Liu, Lowenthal, Negrete McLeod, Padilla,
Pavley, Price, Rubio, Steinberg, Vargas, Walters, Wolk,
Wright, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Calderon, Hancock, Kehoe, Runner,
Simitian, Strickland, Wyland
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 73-0, 8/21/12 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Honorable Jenny Oropeza Memorial Overcrossing
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution names a portion of State Highway
Route 1 in Los Angeles County the "Honorable Jenny Oropeza
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Memorial Overcrossing."
Assembly Amendments add coauthors.
ANALYSIS : The author introduced this resolution as a
tribute to the life of Senator Jenny Oropeza.
Background on Senator Jenny Oropeza . Senator Jenny Oropeza
was born in 1957 in Montebello, California, the oldest of
three children of Victor and Sharon Oropeza. Her father,
the son of Mexican immigrants, was an accomplished
Impressionist painter. Senator Oropeza attended Cal State
Long Beach, where she was elected student body president
and received her degree in business.
Senator Oropeza was elected to the Long Beach school board
in 1988, and then became the first Latino elected to the
Long Beach City Council in 1994. In 2000, she won a seat
in the state Assembly, where she served as chairwoman of
the Assembly Budget Committee. Senator Oropeza was elected
to the state Senate in 2006 and was chairwoman of the
Senate Majority Caucus, as well as the Revenue and Tax
Committee. She also served as a member of the
Appropriations, Transportation, Elections, Reapportionment,
and Constitutional Amendments Committees. Mrs. Oropeza
died on October 20, 2010, less than two weeks before the
November election in which she posthumously won reelection
to the state Senate.
Since her death, Senator Oropeza has been recognized in
numerous ways. The Democratic Women's Study Club in Long
Beach posthumously awarded her the Political Leadership
Award, and since has renamed it the Jenny Oropeza Political
Leadership Award. The Long Beach Community Hispanic
Association (Centro CHA) named an award the Create Change:
Jenny Oropeza Community Service Excellence Award after the
late Senator. 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 to the late Senator.
This resolution designates the portion of State Highway
Route 1 that runs between Coil Street and the east side of
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the main entrance to the Tesoro Refinery in Los Angeles
County the "Honorable Jenny Oropeza Memorial Overcrossing."
The resolution further requests that the Department of
Transportation erect appropriate signs upon receiving
donations from non-state sources to cover the costs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/22/12)
City of Lakewood
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 73-0, 08/21/12
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford,
Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos,
Carter, Cedillo, Chesbro, Conway, Davis, Dickinson,
Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani,
Beth Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gorell, Grove,
Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hill, Huber, Hueso,
Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Lara, Logue, Bonnie
Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Mitchell, Monning,
Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen, Olsen, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel
Pérez, Portantino, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio,
Swanson, Torres, Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada,
John A. Pérez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Cook, Gordon, Halderman, Roger Hernández,
Mansoor, Norby, Valadao
JJA:n 8/22/12 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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