BILL NUMBER: SCR 122 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 19, 2010
INTRODUCED BY Senator Kehoe
AUGUST 9, 2010
Relative to the Esteban Bahena Memorial Highway.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SCR 122, as amended, Kehoe. Esteban Bahena Memorial Highway.
This measure would designate a portion of State Highway Route 163
in the City of San Diego as the Esteban Bahena Memorial Highway. The
measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine
the cost for appropriate signs showing this designation and, upon
receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to
erect those signs.
Fiscal committee: yes.
WHEREAS, Esteban Bahena was employed as an emergency medical
technician with the San Diego Medical Service
Service/Rural Metro ; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Bahena graduated from Mount Miguel High School
in Spring Valley, subsequently graduated from the University of
California at San Diego, and was a resident of Lemon Grove; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Bahena provided extraordinary public service and made
an exemplary contribution to the public good; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Bahena was killed in the line of duty on the morning
of April 1, 2010, on State Highway Route 163 in the City of San Diego
while providing emergency assistance to persons involved in two
vehicle accidents; and
WHEREAS, At the time of his death, Mr. Bahena was only 24
years of age; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Bahena is survived by his mother Tarcilla, his
father Esteban, and two sisters, Rosa Barajas and Angelica Bahena;
and
WHEREAS, in recognition of Mr. Bahena's ultimate sacrifice for the
residents of this state, it is appropriate to dedicate a portion of
State Highway Route 163 in his memory; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
portion of State Highway Route 163 between Washington Street and
State Highway Route 8 (Interstate 8) in the City of San Diego as the
Esteban Bahena Memorial Highway; and be it further
Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the costs of erecting the 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 costs, to erect those signs; and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Department of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.
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