BILL ANALYSIS
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
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As Amended June 28, 2010
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |73-0 |(April 19, |SENATE: |35-0 |(August 12, |
| | |2010) | | |2010) |
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Original Committee Reference: TRANS .
SUMMARY : Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 15 as the
California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer Larry Lynn Wetterling
and San Bernardino County Sheriff's Lieutenant Alfred E. Stewart
Memorial Highway.
The Senate amendments shorten the segment targeted by this bill
for designation as a memorial highway.
EXISTING LAW assigns the California Department of Transportation
(Caltrans) the responsibility of operating and maintaining state
highways. This includes the installation and maintenance of
highway signs.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill was substantially similar
to the version passed by the Senate.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee, there will be minor costs to Caltrans to make and
erect appropriate signs; these costs are covered by donations.
COMMENTS : March 9, 1973, CHP Officer Larry Lynn Wetterling
stopped to assist a driver along the southbound side of SR 15.
The driver, who was a recently paroled convict, killed Officer
Wetterling and stole his patrol car. Having been notified that
there was a paroled convict out on a killing rampage, San
Bernardino County Sheriff's Lieutenant Alfred E. Stewart
answered the call and found the criminal but, unfortunately,
Lieutenant Stewart was also killed.
Larry Lynn Wetterling joined the CHP in 1967, and graduated from
the CHP Academy in 1968. His first assignment was in the
Riverside area until he transferred to the San Bernardino area
in 1970.
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Alfred E. Stewart served in the Korean War as a U.S. Marine and
with the North Bergen (New Jersey) Police Force before hired by
the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department in 1964. He was
one of the founding members of the California Narcotics
Officer's Association and served as the eighth president in
1972. In 1973, the California Narcotics Officer's Association
created the Alfred E. Stewart Memorial Award to honor the
individual achievements of working narcotic officers.
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093
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