BILL NUMBER: SCR 4	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 9, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator DeSaulnier
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Torlakson)

                        DECEMBER 1, 2008

   Relative to the Senator Daniel E. Boatwright Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 4, as amended, DeSaulnier. Senator Daniel E. Boatwright
Highway.
   This measure would designate the portion of State Highway Route
680 that is between the  Benicia  
Benicia-Martinez  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.
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, 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, where 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 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, Senator Boatwright 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 State
Highway Route 680 lane additions and the State 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, Following 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 since
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 State Highway
Route 680 and the State Highway Route 24 interchange; now, therefore,
be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the portion of State Highway Route 680 that
is between the  Benicia   Benicia-Martinez 
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 signs, 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 signs; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit a copy of this
resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for
distribution.