BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: June 22, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Jim Frazier, Chair
SCR
27 (Huff) - As Amended April 16, 2015
SENATE VOTE: 38-0
SUBJECT: Fullerton Police Officer Jerry Hatch Memorial Highway.
SUMMARY: Designates a specific portion of State Route (SR) 91
in Orange County as the "Fullerton Police Officer Jerry Hatch
Memorial Highway." Specifically, this resolution:
1)Recounts the lifetime accomplishments Jerry Hatch, a father,
husband, and officer with the Fullerton Police Department.
2)Designates a portion of SR 91 between College Boulevard and
Magnolia Avenue in Orange County as the "Fullerton Police
Officer Jerry Hatch Memorial Highway."
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
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signs.
EXISTING LAW: Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating
and maintaining state highways. This includes the installation
and maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT: Unknown, but the measure requests that Caltrans
only erect the appropriate signage upon receiving donations from
non-state sources covering the cost.
COMMENTS: Officer Hatch was described as someone who always had
a smile and who had received two citizen citations in the six
months he was on the force.
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 SR 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. Officer Hatch was the first
Fullerton police officer to be killed in the line of duty.
Officer Hatch is survived by his parents, Paul and Dorothy
Hatch; his wife, Ruth; and his daughter, Audrey, who was two
years old at the time of his death. This resolution designating
a specific portion of SR 91 in honor of Jerry Hatch acknowledges
the significant role Officer Hatch played in his community and
for the state.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:
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Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by:Manny Leon / TRANS. / (916)
319-2093