BILL NUMBER: ACR 178	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 25, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Torlakson

                        AUGUST 9, 2000

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 178--Relative to the Senator
Daniel E.  Boatwright Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 178, as amended, Torlakson.  Senator Daniel E. Boatwright
Highway.
   This measure would designate the portion of Interstate Highway
Route 680 that is between the  Carquinez bridge crossing
  Benicia Bridge  in Contra Costa County and the
State Highway Route 24 interchange in the City of Walnut Creek as the
Senator Daniel E. Boatwright Highway.
   This measure would also request the Department of Transportation
to determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers showing this
special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect appropriate plaques and markers.

   Fiscal committee:  yes.




   WHEREAS, Senator Daniel E. Boatwright was elected to the
California State Senate in 1980, and served for 16 years in the 7th
Senate District, and before that, he served eight years in the
California State Assembly, to which he was first elected in 1972; and

   WHEREAS, Senator Boatwright was born in Harrison, Arkansas, but
moved to Vallejo, California, as a child, where he attended public
schools, and his education was interrupted by service in the United
States Army as a combat member of the infantry in Korea; and
   WHEREAS, Senator Boatwright attended Vallejo Junior College where
he was chairman of the student council and was Chairman of the
California Community Colleges Student Council Association, and went
on to receive both his B.A.  degree and his law degree from the
University of California at Berkeley; and
   WHEREAS, Senator Boatwright served as deputy district attorney in
Contra Costa County, becoming chief trial deputy under then District
Attorney John Nejedly before opening his own law firm in Concord in
1970; and
   WHEREAS, Dan Boatwright has served as a city council member and
Mayor of the City of Concord, Chairman of the Contra Costa County
Consolidated Fire Board, and City Attorney for the City of Brentwood
prior to his election to the California State Assembly; and
   WHEREAS, Senator Boatwright commenced, in 1972, a distinguished
24-year legislative career where he authored more than 350 laws and
held several prominent committee chairmanships in each house,
including chairmanships of the Assembly and Senate Revenue and
Taxation Committees, the Assembly Ways and Means Committee, and the
Senate Appropriations Committee, in which capacities he became
legendary for his ability, year after year, to deliver state funding
to cities, the county, and special districts for projects in his
Contra Costa County based district; and
   WHEREAS, From 1982 through 1992, Senator Boatwright worked
tirelessly with the California Transportation Commission, the
Department of Transportation, and the Department of Finance to secure
funding and accelerate the construction and completion of Interstate
Highway Route 680 lane additions and the Interstate Highway Route
680 and State Highway Route 24 interchange in Contra Costa County;
and
   WHEREAS, Senator Boatwright is married to Teresa Boatwright and
has three sons and a grandson and granddaughter who reside in Contra
Costa County; and
   WHEREAS, Since his retirement from the Legislature in 1996,
Senator Boatwright served as the Senate's representative in 1997 and
1998 to the California Medical Assistance Commission and has resumed
the practice of law and begun the practice of lobbying; and
   WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to recognize Senator Daniel E.
Boatwright's extraordinary service to the community, particularly as
that service has resulted in the improvement of central Contra Costa
County's transportation infrastructure, specifically Interstate
Highway Route 680 and the State Highway Route 24 interchange; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the portion of Interstate Highway Route 680
that is between the  Carquinez bridge crossing  
Benicia Bridge  in Contra Costa County and the State Highway
Route 24 interchange in the City of Walnut Creek is hereby designated
the Senator Daniel E. Boatwright Highway; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers, consistent
with the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing
the special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those plaques and markers; and
be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit a copy of
this resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author
for distribution.