BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: August 18, 2014
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
SCR 125 (Corbett) - As Introduced: May 29, 2014
SENATE VOTE : 32-0
SUBJECT : CHP officers Frederick Wayne Enright and Adolfo
Martinez Hern�ndez Memorial Bridge.
SUMMARY : Designates a specific portion of Interstate 680
(I-680) in Alameda County as the "CHP Officers Frederick Wayne
Enright and Adolfo Martinez Hern�ndez Memorial Bridge."
Specifically, this bill :
1)Recounts the lifetime accomplishments of both Frederick
Enright and Adolfo Hern�ndez - fathers, husbands, decorated
veterans, and officers with the California Highway Patrol
(CHP).
2)Designates a portion of I-680 in Alameda County at Auto Mall
Parkway as the "CHP officers Frederick Wayne Enright and
Adolfo Martinez Hern�ndez Memorial Bridge."
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 make and erect the appropriate signs
are covered by donations.
COMMENTS : Frederick Enright was born in Missouri in 1944,
graduated from Canoga Park High School in Canoga Park,
California, and then served in the U.S. Army from 1965 until
1970. He graduated from the CHP Academy in 1972 and within six
months of entering the Highway Patrol achieved the rank of
pilot. He worked as a pilot in the Golden Gate Division,
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conducting traffic observation and participating in rescue
operations. Officer Enright was survived by his wife, Sheila,
and their daughter, Robyn Alise, who was born in 1973.
Born in Etiwanda, California in 1940, Adolfo Hernandez graduated
from Fontana High School and then attended Chaffey Community
College. He served in the U.S. Army from 1960 until 1968. He
graduated from the CHP Academy in 1966 and served in the patrol
for nine years. Officer Hernandez was survived by his wife,
Genevieve, and their two children, Lisa Mercedes, born in 1972,
and Sebastian Heriberto, born in 1974.
Officers Frederick Wayne Enright and Adolfo Martinez Hernandez
died in a helicopter crash on October 27, 1975, while patrolling
highways near the City of Fremont. The crash resulted from
mechanical failure, and both were killed instantaneously.
The author introduced this resolution to change the highway
facility named to honor the life and service of CHP officers
Frederick Wayne Enright and Adolfo Martinez Hernandez. ACR 100
(Chapter 109, Statutes of 2012), named 26 highway facilities;
among them was the Grimmer Boulevard Bridge on I-680, in the
City of Fremont, as the CHP Officers Fredrick Wayne Enright and
Adolfo Martinez Hernandez Memorial Bridge. Later, according to
the author, family members of the two fallen officers asked that
instead the designation be at a different location on I-680.
Caltrans has already placed a sign at this new location, the
bridge where I-680 crosses over Auto Mall Parkway. This
resolution confirms that action by rescinding the designation
done in ACR 100 and instead designating the I-680 bridge where
the sign memorializing the two officers is already placed.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
California Association of Highway Patrolmen
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Manny Leon / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093
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