BILL ANALYSIS �
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
ACR 117 (Achadjian)
As Amended May 31, 2012
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |69-0 |(May 3, 2012) |SENATE: |35-0 |(June 21, |
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Original Committee Reference: TRANS .
SUMMARY : Designates the east and westbound State Route (SR) 46
and 101 interchanges as the California Highway Patrol Officer
Brett J. Oswald Memorial Interchange.
The Senate amendments clarify the location of the interchange
targeted by the bill for designation.
EXISTING LAW assigns the California Department of Transportation
(Caltrans) the responsibility to operate and maintain state
highways. This includes the installation and maintenance of
highway signs.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill:
1)Recounted the life and career of Brett Oswald, a California
Highway Patrol (CHP) officer who lost his life in the line of
duty.
2)Designated the eastbound and westbound interchanges at SR 101
and SR 46 in Paso Robles as the California Highway Patrol
Officer Brett J. Oswald Memorial Interchange.
3)Requested 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 sufficient to cover the cost,
to erect those signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee, minor State Highway Account costs to Caltrans that
will be covered by donations.
COMMENTS : Brett James Oswald graduated from the CHP Academy in
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1990 as a flight officer, and was assigned to the Santa Fe
Springs Area Office. He subsequently served as a traffic
officer in the King City Area Office, a flight officer in the
Paso Robles Coastal Division Air Operations Office, and a
traffic officer in the Templeton Area Office. Officer Oswald
proudly served a total of 20 years and one month as a CHP
Officer.
Officer Oswald was killed in the line of duty on June 27, 2010,
in Paso Robles when he was struck by a vehicle while waiting for
a tow truck on the side of the road. He had responded to a
report that a vehicle had hit a tree on South River Road in Paso
Robles. After investigating, Officer Oswald determined that no
accident had occurred and that the vehicle was abandoned. He
called for a tow truck and was waiting next to his patrol car,
when a passing vehicle crossed the double yellow lines and
struck the patrol car. The force of the impact pushed the
patrol car into him. He was transported to a local hospital
where he later died from his injuries.
Related legislation: ACR 100 (Bonnie Lowenthal) combines a
number of highway-namings into one bill. AB 1645 (Norby) of the
current legislative session, would have transferred authority
for highway-namings from the Legislature to the California
Transportation Commission. ACR 100 is on the Assembly floor.
AB 1645 failed in the Assembly Transportation Committee. The
author of this resolution has not included the proposed Oswald
Memorial Interchange naming in ACR 100 since this particular
memorialization needs to be approved in an expedited fashion in
order for the signs to be produced in time for a scheduled (June
27) ceremony in memory of Officer Oswald.
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093
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