Death
Collins died of a sudden heart attack March 19, 1993 in Sacramento while serving his second term in the State Assembly. Alby won the special election to replace him.
Several sites in Sacramento have been renamed in his honor. When the Sacramento Army Depot was redesignated as an Army Reserve Center in the mid-1990s, it was renamed the B.T. Collins Army Reserve Center. There is also a park in the City of Folsom named the B.T. Collins City Park located at 828 Willow Creek Dr, Folsom, CA. The men's restroom in the Santa Clara University School of Law library was named the "B.T. Collins Memorial Latrine" in his honor; it features a plaque over the urinal with a quote from Collins: "If it ain’t in Gilbert's, it ain't the Law."
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