BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: May 11, 2009
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Mike Eng, Chair
SCR 4 (DeSaulnier) - As Amended: March 24, 2008
SENATE VOTE : 37-0
SUBJECT : State Route 680
SUMMARY : Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 680 as the
Senator Daniel E. Boatwright Highway. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the life and career of Daniel Boatwright, a former
member of both the California State Senate and the Assembly.
2)Designates the segment of SR 680 between the Benicia-Martinez
Bridge in Contra Costa County and SR 24 in the City of Walnut
Creek as the Senator Daniel E. Boatwright Highway.
3)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) 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.
EXISTING LAW assigns Caltrans the responsibility to operate and
maintain state highways. This responsibility includes the
installation and maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown. This bill was withdrawn from the
Senate Appropriations Committee pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
COMMENTS : Daniel Boatwright began his career 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. He subsequently 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.
In 1972, he commenced a distinguished 24-year legislative career
where he authored more than 350 laws and held several prominent
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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.
From 1982 through 1992, Senator Boatwright worked tirelessly
with the California Transportation Commission, Caltrans, and the
Department of Finance to secure funding and accelerate the
construction and completion of SR 680 lane additions and the SR
680/24 interchange in Contra Costa County.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
City of Pittsburg
Opposition
None received
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093