Bill Text: CA SCR2 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered


Bill Title: Eugene "Gene" Chappie Memorial Highway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-07-16 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 105, Statutes of 2015. [SCR2 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SCR2-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: SCR 2	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  105
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 16, 2015
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  APRIL 23, 2015
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 13, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Gaines
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Bigelow)

                        DECEMBER 5, 2014

   Relative to the Eugene "Gene" Chappie Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 2, Gaines. Eugene "Gene" Chappie Memorial Highway.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway
Route 193 in El Dorado County as the Eugene "Gene" Chappie Memorial
Highway. The measure would also request the Department of
Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing
this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.



   WHEREAS, Eugene "Gene" Chappie was a long-time El Dorado County
resident and rancher who dedicated his life to serving his county,
his state, his country, and the American people; and
   WHEREAS, Gene Chappie was born on March 28, 1920, in Sacramento.
After graduating from high school in 1938, he joined the United
States Army and was promoted to the rank of Captain while serving in
the Pacific Theater during World War II, and later returned to serve
his country again during the Korean War; and
   WHEREAS, In 1950, Governor Earl Warren appointed Gene Chappie to a
vacant seat on the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors, where he
served and represented the residents of the 4th Supervisorial
District until he was elected to the State Assembly in 1964, where he
served and represented the residents of the 6th Assembly District;
and
   WHEREAS, During his tenure in the Legislature, Gene Chappie served
as Chair of the Welfare Committee from 1967 to 1969, and Chair of
the Assembly Rules Committee from 1969 to 1971. He pioneered
legislation in the area of eliminating architectural barriers for the
handicapped, and authored measures with a more direct bearing on his
district, including legislation regulating the safety and use of
snowmobiles and efforts to introduce planning concepts into the Lake
Tahoe basin; and
   WHEREAS, Gene Chappie was elected to the United States House of
Representatives in 1980, where he served and represented the
residents of the 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts. During his six
years in Congress, he served on the Agriculture Committee, the Small
Business Committee, the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, and
the Select Committee on Drugs and Narcotics Abuse. He announced his
retirement in 1986 and returned to his family's ranch in Cool,
California; and
   WHEREAS, Governor George Deukmejian appointed Gene Chappie in 1987
to the California Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission,
where he served until 1992; and
   WHEREAS, Governor George Deukmejian appointed Gene Chappie in 1988
to a vacant seat on the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors,
returning him once again to represent the constituents of the 4th
Supervisorial District until 1991; and
   WHEREAS, Gene Chappie served on various boards and commissions.
President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the federal Architectural
and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board. At the state level, he
served on the Commission on the Status of Women, the Commission of
the Californians, and the Heritage Preservation Commission; and
   WHEREAS, Gene Chappie was a founder of the Mountain Counties Water
Resources Association, the Georgetown Divide Public Utility
District, and was one of the original organizers and supporters of
the Jeepers Jamboree. He was a member of the Rotary Club, the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, the Pilot Hill Grange,
the Native Sons of the Golden West, the El Dorado County Farm
Bureau, the Elks, and the Holy Name Society; and
   WHEREAS, Gene Chappie passed away on May 31, 1992, at 72 years of
age at his home in Georgetown, California; and
   WHEREAS, In recognition of Gene Chappie's four decades of service
to the citizens of El Dorado County and the State of California, it
is fitting to designate a portion of State Highway 193 in his honor;
now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
portion of State Highway 193 from State Highway 49 to Cramer Road in
El Dorado County as the Eugene "Gene" Chappie Memorial Highway; and
be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate signs consistent with the signing
requirements for the state highway system showing this special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs; and be it further

   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.                                
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