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CONSENT
Bill No: ACR 158
Author: Perea (D)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 11-0, 8/12/14
AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Beall, Cannella, Galgiani, Hueso,
Lara, Liu, Pavley, Roth, Wyland
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 8/4/14 (Consent) - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : California Highway Patrol Officers Brian M. Law and
Juan J. Gonzalez Memorial Highway
SOURCE : California Association of Highway Patrolmen
DIGEST : This resolution designates a portion of State Highway
Route (SR) 99 in Fresno County as the California Highway Patrol
(CHP) Officers Brian M. Law and Juan J. Gonzalez Memorial
Highway.
ANALYSIS :
Background on Officers Law and Gonzalez . Brian Law was born on
July 2, 1979, in Redwood City, California. He served in the
U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force. He graduated from the
CHP Academy in April 2008 and was assigned to Oakland, where he
served for five years before being transferred to Fresno. At
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the time of his death, Officer Law and his wife were about to
open a kickboxing studio for women in north Fresno.
Juan Gonzalez was born on February 10, 1981. He graduated from
Fresno State University and was a classmate of Officer Law at
the CHP Academy, also graduating in April 2008. He was then
assigned to San Jose, where he served for two years before being
transferred to Fresno.
On February 17, 2014, Officers Law and Gonzalez died in a
single-vehicle crash while responding to an accident, which had
been incorrectly reported in the opposite direction. Nearing
the scene of the accident, the officers swerved to avoid a
pedestrian who had been involved in the accident and struck a
guardrail, causing their vehicle to overturn. Both officers
suffered fatal injuries and were pronounced dead at the scene.
Officer Law is survived by his mother, wife, daughter, son,
stepdaughter, and sister. Officer Gonzalez is survived by his
mother and sister.
This resolution designates the portion of SR 99 from the
Fresno/Tulare county line to the Mountain View Avenue
overcrossing in Fresno County as the CHP Officers Brian M. Law
and Juan J. Gonzalez Memorial Highway. This resolution further
requests that the Department of Transportation erect appropriate
signs upon receiving donations from non-state sources to cover
the costs.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/21/14)
California Association of Highway Patrolmen (source)
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 8/4/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden,
Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal,
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Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi,
Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A.
P�rez, V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner,
Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Gorell, Vacancy
JA:k 8/21/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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