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          Date of Hearing:  June 14, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                               Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
                 SCR 88 (DeSaulnier) - As Introduced:  March 15, 2010

           SENATE VOTE  :  33-0
           
          SUBJECT  :  State Route 4

           SUMMARY  :  Designates the Harbor Avenue Overcrossing over State  
          Route (SR) 4 in Contra Costa County as the Officer Larry Lasater  
          Memorial Overcrossing.  Specifically,  this bill  :  

          1)Recounts the life and career of Larry Lasater, a Pittsburg  
            Police Officer who died in the line of duty.

          2)Designates the Harbor Avenue Overcrossing over SR 4 in Contra  
            Costa County as the Officer Larry Lasater Memorial  
            Overcrossing.  

          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  
            this special designation and, upon receiving donations from  
            nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.  

           EXISTING LAW  :  Assigns Caltrans the responsibility to operate  
          and maintain state highway.  This 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  This bill was withdrawn from the  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  :  Born in 1969, Larry Lasater grew up in the City of  
          Martinez, graduated from Park Valley High School in Pleasant  
          Hill, attended Diablo Valley College, and received his  
          Bachelor's Degree from the University of California, Davis in  
          1993.  In 1994, he graduated from the U.S. Marine Corps Officer  
          Candidate School and served six years in the Marine Corps,  
          achieving the rank of Captain as a tank commander.  

          In 1999, Officer Lasater married his wife, Jo Ann, and left the  
          Marine Corps.  In 2002, after attending the Contra Costa County  
          Law Enforcement Academy, where he received the high honor of top  








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          recruit for his class, he became a Pittsburg Police Officer.  In  
          2004, he joined the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team  
          there.  

          On April 23, 2005, Officer Lasater was critically wounded by  
          gunfire in an attempt to arrest two armed robbery suspects.   
          Officer Lassiter died the next day, April 24, 2005, three months  
          before the birth of his only child, Cody.  He had enrolled as an  
          organ donor, and press stories at the time indicated that his  
          heart saved the life of a 61-year-old Redding man.  

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          City of Pittsburg
          Pittsburg Police Department
           Opposition 
           
          None on file


           Analysis Prepared by  :   Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093