BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: SCR 57
Author: Calderon (D)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
WITHOUT REFERENCE TO COMMITTEE OR FILE
SUBJECT : The CHP Officer David M. Romero Memorial
Highway
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution designates a specified portion
of State Highway Route 60 in Los Angeles County as the CHP
Officer David M. Romero Memorial Highway. This resolution
requests the Department of Transportation to determine the
cost for appropriate signs showing this special designation
and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
covering that cost, to erect those signs.
ANALYSIS :
This resolution makes the following legislative findings:
California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer David M. Romero was
born on April 2, 1958, in West Covina, California. His
parents were Gregory and Marina Romero and his siblings
were Greg Romero, Lydia Huard, and Sylvia Romero.
Officer Romero attended Los Altos High School in Hacienda
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Heights, California, and graduated in June 1976, after
which he attended Rio Hondo College in Whittier,
California.
Officer Romero was selected for the cadet position and
entered the CHP Academy on January 11, 1982. Upon
graduation from the CHP Academy on May 27, 1982, Officer
Romero, badge number 10116, was assigned to the Santa Fe
Springs Area Office as a motorcycle officer.
Officer Romero was killed in the line of duty on September
23, 2005. While stopped at a red light on his departmental
motorcycle in the City of Industry, he was rear-ended by a
vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed, driven by an
intoxicated driver.
Officer Romero was married to Sandra Leanos in 1993 and had
five wonderful children: Austin, Windsor, Victor, Vanessa,
and David Dion.
Officer Romero was a dedicated officer who loved his job
and enjoyed the people he worked with. He was a wonderful
father and husband and his greatest joys in life were his
wife and children. In his spare time, Officer Romero
enjoyed playing elaborate pranks on coworkers and taking
his family on annual adventures in Mexico.
This resolution designates a specified portion of State
Highway Route 60 in Los Angeles County as the "CHP Officer
David M. Romero Memorial Highway." This resolution
requests the Department of Transportation to determine the
cost for appropriate signs showing this special designation
and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
covering that cost, to erect those signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
JJA:cm 9/11/09 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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