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          Date of Hearing:   January 13, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                               Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
                  SCR 57 (Hernandez) - As Amended:  August 26, 2013

           SENATE VOTE  :  36-0
           
          SUBJECT  :  Memorial Highway Naming

           SUMMARY  :  Designates a portion of Interstate 10 (I-10) in Los  
          Angeles County as the California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officers  
          Harold E. Horine and Bill Leiphardt Memorial Highway.   
          Specifically,  this bill  :  

          1)Recounts the life of Officers Harold E. Horine and Bill  
            Leiphardt.  

          2)Designates a portion of I-10 in Los Angeles County as the CHP  
            Officers Harold E. Horine and Bill Leiphardt Memorial Highway.  
             

          3)Requests that the California Department of Transportation  
            (Caltrans) determine the cost of appropriate signs, consistent  
            with the signing requirements for the state highway system,  
            showing the special designation and, upon receiving donations  
            from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect those  
            signs.

           EXISTING LAW  :  Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating  
          and maintaining state highways.  This includes the installation  
          and maintenance of highway signs.  

           FISCAL EFFECT  :  Costs to Caltrans to erect the signs are to be  
          covered by non-state donations.  

           COMMENTS  :  Born in El Monte, Harold Eugene Horine graduated from  
          El Monte High School in 1957, and after time working in other  
          fields, graduated from the California Highway Patrol (CHP)  
          Academy in 1968.  He served in the CHP for 10 years as an  
          officer in the Baldwin Park Area Office.  In 1960, he married,  
          and he and his wife Rita had four daughters.  

          Born in Colorado, William Ferris Leiphardt grew up in Long Beach  
          and graduated from Saint Mary's High School in 1957.  He served  








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          in the United States Air Force and then joined the CHP.  He,  
          too, served in the Baldwin Park Area Office for 12 years.  In  
          1960, he married, and he and his wife had four children.  

          Officers Horine and Leiphardt died in the line of duty on May  
          13, 1978, while they were investigating an abandoned vehicle  
          that had been involved in a roadside accident.  A drunk driver  
          operating a tractor trailer swerved and hit the abandoned  
          vehicle, pushing it into the two officers.  Both were 39 years  
          old at the time.  

          This resolution designates the portion of I-10 from the Baldwin  
          Park Overcrossing to the Sunset Avenue Undercrossing in the  
          County of Los Angeles as the CHP Officers Harold E. Horine and  
          Bill Leiphardt Memorial Highway.  The resolution further  
          requests that Caltrans erect appropriate signs upon receiving  
          donations from non-state sources to cover the costs.  

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          California Association of Highway Patrolmen (sponsor)
           
            Opposition 
           
          None on file

           
          Analysis Prepared by  :   Victoria Alvarez / TRANS. / (916) 319-  
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