BILL NUMBER: SCR 115	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lara
   (Coauthors: Senators Block, Corbett, Correa, De León, Hancock,
Hernandez, Hueso, Liu, Mitchell, Padilla, Pavley, Steinberg, and
Torres)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Ian Calderon, Campos, Garcia,
Gonzalez, Medina, V. Manuel Pérez, Rendon, and Rodriguez)

                        APRIL 21, 2014

   Relative to the Senator Jenny Oropeza Memorial Freeway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 115, as introduced, Lara. Senator Jenny Oropeza Memorial
Freeway.
   This measure would designate the portion of State Highway Route
710 that runs between Pico Avenue and West Wardlow Road in the City
of Long Beach as the Senator Jenny Oropeza Memorial Freeway. The
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 that cost, to erect those signs.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, Jenny Oropeza, who passed away on October 20, 2010, was a
lifelong public servant who was active in her community and was
first elected to the Long Beach Unified School District Board of
Education, then the Long Beach City Council, the Assembly of the
State of California, and finally to the Senate of the State of
California; and
   WHEREAS, During her time as a Member of the Legislature, Jenny
Oropeza was a champion for public transportation, health care,
education, clean air, equality, and the prevention of cancer; and
   WHEREAS, Senator Oropeza was so admired by her constituents and
community that she was posthumously awarded the Political Leadership
Award in 2011 by the Democratic Women's Study Club in Long Beach,
which has renamed that award the Jenny Oropeza Political Leadership
Award; and
   WHEREAS, The Long Beach Community Hispanic Association (Centro
CHA) posthumously awarded Senator Oropeza the Create Change Community
Service Excellence Award in 2011, which will in future years be
called the Create Change: Jenny Oropeza Community Service Excellence
Award; and
   WHEREAS, In recognition of Senator Oropeza, the Long Beach Lambda
Democratic Club created the Jenny Oropeza Ally of the Year Award,
which was first awarded in 2011; and
   WHEREAS, As a tribute to 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 that all the planned bridges, designed to prevent cars from
having to wait for trains to pass at street level, would be
completed, except for the bridge on State Highway Route 1 (Pacific
Coast Highway) in the community of Wilmington, which was the busiest
route along the Alameda Corridor; and
   WHEREAS, The bridge to be built at that location would bisect the
Equilon Refinery and was therefore the most complicated and expensive
bridge to build, and there was not enough funding to complete the on
State Highway Route 1 bridge; and
   WHEREAS, Senator Oropeza brought together the interested parties,
including the Department of Transportation, the Alameda Corridor
Transportation Authority, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority (LACMTA), the Equilon Refinery, the Union
Pacific Railroad, and the City of Los Angeles to solve this problem
of completing the bridge and was able to help facilitate $107 million
in funding from a combination of sources that included state
transportation funds, state Proposition 116 bond funds, federal
demonstration funds, LACMTA funds, and railroad funds; 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 710 that runs between Pico Avenue and
West Wardlow Road in the City of Long Beach as the Senator Jenny
Oropeza Memorial Freeway; 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 that cost, to erect those signs; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.