BILL NUMBER: SCR 27	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 16, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Huff
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Kim)

                        MARCH 9, 2015

   Relative to the Fullerton Police Officer Jerry Hatch Memorial
Highway.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 27, as amended, Huff. Fullerton Police Officer Jerry Hatch
Memorial Highway.
   This measure would designate a portion of State Highway Route 91
in the County of Orange as the Fullerton Police Officer Jerry Hatch
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 the costs, to erect those signs.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, Officer Jerry Scott Hatch was a police officer for the
Fullerton Police Department; and
   WHEREAS, On Sunday, June 29, 1975, while on his way to work,
Officer Hatch stopped to assist a motorist with an engine fire on the
Beach Boulevard off ramp of State Highway Route 91. As he was
placing his fire extinguisher back in his trunk, Officer Hatch was
struck from behind by a drunk driver. On June 30, 1975, Officer Hatch
succumbed to his injuries; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Hatch was the first Fullerton police officer to
be killed in the line of duty; and
   WHEREAS, Fellow officers say that Officer Hatch's good samaritan
act was typical for him; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Hatch was described as an officer who always had
a smile and who had received two citizen citations in the short six
months he was on the force; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Hatch left behind his parents, Paul and Dorothy
Hatch, his wife, Ruth, and his daughter, Audrey, who was only two
years  old   of age  at the time of his
death; and
   WHEREAS, It is appropriate to memorialize the service and
sacrifice of Officer  Hatch,   Hatch  by
designating a portion of State Highway Route 91 in the County of
Orange 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 Route 91 between State  Highway
Route 57   College Boulevard  and  State
Highway Route 39 (Beach Boulevard)  Magnolia Avenue
 in the County of Orange as the Fullerton Police Officer Jerry
Hatch 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.