BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: June 18, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
SCR 78 (La Malfa) - As Amended: May 1, 2012
SENATE VOTE : 38-0
SUBJECT : State Routes 5, 20, 39 and 299
SUMMARY : Designates segments of State Routes (SR) 5, 20, 39,
and 299 in honor of various distinguished individuals and groups
who made notable contributions to their communities or the
state. Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the lives and careers of Kenneth Fredrick Perrigo,
David F. Mobilio, Mark Ratledge, and Michael Anthony Osornio.
2)Designates the Burney Creek Bridge on Main Street along SR
299, in the unincorporated area of Burney, as the Deputy
Kenneth Fredrick Perrigo Memorial Bridge; the segment of SR 5
from the Riverside Avenue overcrossing to the North Red Bluff
overcrossing in the City of Red Bluff as the Officer David F.
Mobilio Memorial Highway; the Brighton Street Overcrossing
over SR 20 in the City of Grass Valley as the Gold Star
Memorial Bridge; the segment of SR 5 from the Bowman Road
overcrossing to the northbound Main Street on ramp in the City
of Cottonwood as the Captain Mark Ratledge Memorial Highway;
and the segment of SR 39 on Beach Boulevard in the City of La
Habra from the south city limits to Whittier Boulevard as the
La Habra Police Officer Michael Anthony Osornio Memorial
Highway.
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 each
of these special designations and, upon receiving donations
from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost of the sign
for which the donations were made, to erect that sign.
EXISTING LAW : Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating
and maintaining state highways. This includes the installation
and maintenance of highway signs.
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FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown. This bill was withdrawn from the
Senate Appropriations Committee pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
COMMENTS : Shasta County Deputy Sheriff Kenneth Fredrick Perrigo
in 1991 arrested two suspects for being intoxicated in public,
and was transporting them to the Shasta County main jail in
Redding, California, when the suspects shot him in the back and
head several times using Deputy Perrigo's secondary service
weapon, and he died in the line of duty that day.
Red Bluff Police Officer David F. Mobilio in 2002, covered the
graveyard shift for another officer, and at approximately 1:30
a.m. he checked out at a gas station to fuel his patrol car.
Following several minutes without communication from Officer
Mobilio, the dispatcher attempted to make radio contact with
him. Following several more minutes of no response, a sergeant
was dispatched to the location and found Officer Mobilio shot to
death near his patrol car. Officer Mobilio had been ambushed
while fueling his patrol car by an unknown suspect who was later
apprehended with the assistance of many allied law enforcement
agencies and who was subsequently convicted of murdering Officer
Mobilio.
Marine Lance Corporal Adam Strain, who was assigned to 1st
Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, I Marine Division, 1st Marine
Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, attached to 2nd Marine
Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), was killed in
action in Iraq on August 3, 2005, at 20 years of age.
Marine Lance Corporal John "JT" Lucente, who was assigned to
Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 13th
Marine Expeditionary Unit, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp
Pendleton, attached to II Marine Division, 2nd Marine
Expeditionary Force (Forward), was killed in action in Iraq on
November 16, 2005, at 19 years of age.
Marine Corporal Sean A. Stokes, who was assigned to 3rd
Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, I Marine Division, 1st Marine
Expeditionary Force, was killed in action in Iraq on July 30,
2007, at 24 years of age.
Cottonwood Fire Department Captain Mark Ratledge died, at 35
years of age, on February 29, 2012, after being struck by an
out-of-control vehicle while he was working the scene of another
accident.
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La Habra Police Officer Michael Anthony Osornio on October 31,
1994, was patrolling the southwest portion of the city during
the graveyard shift and was stopped at a red traffic signal at
westbound La Habra Boulevard at Beach Boulevard. He began to
accelerate when the westbound traffic signal changed to green,
when his patrol car was hit by a vehicle as Officer Osornio
crossed through the intersection, and he died in the line of
duty from injuries sustained in the collision. The driver of
that vehicle was driving at approximately 60 miles per hour and
was subsequently convicted of a felony for driving under the
influence of alcohol.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093