BILL ANALYSIS �
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE BILL NO: scr 57
SENATOR MARK DESAULNIER, CHAIRMAN AUTHOR: hernandez
VERSION: 8/12/13
Analysis by: Carrie Cornwell FISCAL: yes
Hearing date: August 20, 2013
SUBJECT:
California Highway Patrol Officers Harold E. Horine and Bill
Leiphardt Memorial Highway
DESCRIPTION:
This resolution names a portion of Interstate 10 in Los Angeles
County as the California Highway Patrol Officers Harold E.
Horine and Bill Leiphardt Memorial Highway.
ANALYSIS:
The committee has adopted a policy regarding the naming of state
highways or structures. Under the policy, the committee will
consider only those resolutions that meet all of the following
criteria:
The person being honored must have provided extraordinary
public service or some exemplary contribution to the public
good and have a connection to the community where the highway
is located.
The person being honored must be deceased.
The naming must be done without cost to the state. Costs for
signs and plaques must be paid by local or private sources.
The author or co-author of the measure must represent the
district in which the facility is located, and the measure
must identify the specific highway segment or structure being
named.
If the segment of highway is being named for a specific
individual or individuals, it must not exceed five miles in
length.
The proposed designation must reflect a community consensus
and be without local opposition.
The proposed designation may not supersede an existing
designation unless the sponsor can document that a good faith
effort has uncovered no opposition to rescinding the prior
designation.
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This resolution designates the portion of Interstate 10 from the
Baldwin Park Overcrossing to the Sunset Avenue Undercrossing in
the County of Los Angeles as the California Highway Patrol
Officers Harold E. Horine and Bill Leiphardt Memorial Highway.
The resolution further requests that the Department of
Transportation erect appropriate signs upon receiving donations
from non-state sources to cover the costs.
COMMENTS:
1.Purpose . The author introduced this resolution to honor the
life and service of Harold E. Horine and Bill Leiphardt.
2.Background on Harold El Horine and Bill Leiphardt . Born in El
Monte, Harold Eugene Horine graduated from El Monte High
School in 1957, and after time working in other fields,
graduated from the CHP Academy in 1968. He served in the CHP
for ten years as an officer in the Baldwin Park Area. In
1960, he married, and he and his wife Rita had four daughters.
Born in Colorado, William Ferris Leiphardt grew up in Long
Beach and graduated from Saint Mary's High School in 1957. He
served in the U.S. Air Force and then joined the CHP. He,
too, served in the Baldwin Park Area for 12 years. In 1960,
he married, and he and his wife had four children, two sons
and two daughters.
Officers Horine and Leiphardt died in the line of duty on May
13, 1978, while they were investigating an abandoned vehicle
that had been involved in a roadside accident. A drunk driver
operating a tractor trailer swerved and hit the abandoned
vehicle, pushing it into the two officers. Both were 39 years
old at the time.
3.Consistent with the committee's policy . This resolution is
consistent with all the provisions of the committee's policy
on highway designations.
POSITIONS: (Communicated to the committee before noon on
Wednesday, August
14, 2013.)
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SUPPORT: California Association of Highway Patrolmen
(sponsor)
OPPOSED: None received.