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Bill No: SCR 115
Author: Lara (D), et al.
Amended: 5/12/14
Vote: 21
SENATE TRANSPORTATION & HOUSING COMMITTEE : 10-0, 6/10/14
AYES: DeSaulnier, Gaines, Cannella, Galgiani, Hueso, Lara, Liu,
Pavley, Roth, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Beall
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
SUBJECT : Senator Jenny Oropeza Memorial Freeway
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution names a portion of State Route 710 in
the City of Long Beach the Senator Jenny Oropeza Memorial
Freeway.
ANALYSIS : The author introduced this resolution as a tribute
to the life of Senator Jenny Oropeza.
Background on Senator Jenny Oropeza . Senator Jenny Oropeza was
born in 1957 in Montebello, California, the oldest of three
children of Victor and Sharon Oropeza. Her father, the son of
Mexican immigrants, was an accomplished Impressionist painter.
Senator Oropeza attended Cal State Long Beach, where she was
elected student body president and received her degree in
business.
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Senator Oropeza was elected to the Long Beach school board in
1988 and then became the first Latino elected to the Long Beach
City Council in 1994. In 2000, she won a seat in the state
Assembly, where she served as chairwoman of the Assembly Budget
Committee. Senator Oropeza was elected to the state Senate in
2006 and served as chairwoman of the Senate Majority Caucus as
well as the Revenue and Taxation Committee. She also served as
a member of the Appropriations; Transportation; and Elections,
Reapportionment, and Constitutional Amendments committees.
Senator Oropeza died on October 20, 2010, less than two weeks
before the November election in which she posthumously won
reelection to the state Senate.
Since her death, Senator Oropeza has been recognized in numerous
ways. The Democratic Women's Study Club in Long Beach
posthumously awarded her the Political Leadership Award, and
since has named it the Jenny Oropeza Political Leadership Award.
The Long Beach Community Hispanic Association (Centro CHA)
named an award the Create Change: Jenny Oropeza Community
Service Excellence Award after the late senator. The City of
Long Beach named the community center in Cesar E. Chavez Park
the Jenny Oropeza Community Center, and the Los Angeles Unified
School District dedicated the Jenny Oropeza Global Studies
Academy at the Rancho Dominguez Preparatory School to the late
Senator.
This resolution designates the portion of State Route 710 that
runs between Pico Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway in the
City of Long Beach the Senator Jenny Oropeza Memorial Freeway.
The 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
JA:e 6/24/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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