BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: June 7, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
SCR 50 (Cox) - As Amended: July 8, 2009
SENATE VOTE : 38-0
SUBJECT : State Route 80
SUMMARY : Designates an interchange on State Route (SR) 80 as
the California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer Raymond Carpenter
Memorial Interchange. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the life and career of Raymond Roy Carpenter, a CHP
officer who died in the line of duty.
2)Designates the Rocklin Road Interchange on SR 80 in Placer
County, as the CHP Officer Raymond Carpenter Memorial
Interchange.
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
that special designation and, upon receiving donations from
nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating
and maintaining state highways, including the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : Ray Carpenter grew up and spent most of his life in
the Auburn, California area. After graduating high school he
served in the Air Force as an enlisted man, specializing in
weather forecast and analysis and was eventually honorably
discharged as a Technical Sergeant. He then joined the CHP and
was initially assigned to Bakersfield. Ray subsequently
transferred to the Truckee area office and finally made his way
to the Auburn office. He was soon back at home in the Auburn
area patrolling the roads in his hometown.
Ray was also very active in the early days of the Civil Air
Patrol Squadron 60 in Auburn as an aircraft observer who would
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often go up and assist with search and rescue missions in the
area. In the early 1960s, Ray ran for the State Senate seat for
the district that covers Auburn, and narrowly lost in his bid
against the incumbent, Ron Cameron. His wife Pat said that he
ran for the Senate strictly because he disagreed with the
incumbent and felt he could do a better job.
On February 17, 1970, Ray Carpenter, a CHP officer and loyal
servant to the State of California, died after being shot by the
driver of a vehicle he had stopped. At the time of his death,
Ray was a member of the Eureka Lodge No. 16, the Auburn lodge of
the Freemasons, reaching the level of Master Mason within the
lodge. He also held the rank of Commander with the VFW (Post
1942) and it was this post that performed funeral services for
him.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
California Association of Highway Patrolmen (sponsor)
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093