BILL NUMBER: SCR 120	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 19, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Denham
   (Coauthor: Senator Cogdill)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bill Berryhill and Tom Berryhill)

                        AUGUST 4, 2010

   Relative to the CHP Officer Earl Scott Memorial Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 120, as amended, Denham. CHP Officer Earl Scott Memorial
Highway.
   This measure would designate  the   a
specified  portion of State Highway Route 99  between
the Cities of Salida and Modesto  in Stanislaus County as
the California Highway Patrol Officer Earl Scott 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.
   Fiscal committee: yes.



   WHEREAS, On February 17, 2006, California Highway Patrol Officer
Earl Scott was tragically shot and killed while making a traffic stop
on State Highway Route 99 in Stanislaus County; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Scott was 36 years old and had served with the
California Highway Patrol (CHP) for five years; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Scott came from a long line of family members who
devoted themselves to public service under the auspices of the CHP,
including his father and two uncles who retired from the CHP as
sergeants, and a cousin who currently serves as a sergeant with the
CHP; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Scott is remembered as being the first to
volunteer for such causes as shaving his head for "Shave the Brave,"
a fundraiser for cancer victims; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Scott also frequently took youth Law Enforcement
Explorers on ride-alongs; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Scott touched many lives and leaves behind many
fellow officers whose friendship with Officer Scott was more akin to
being a family; and
   WHEREAS, Officer Scott is survived by his father, stepmother, and
sister; and
   WHEREAS, It is a fitting tribute to Officer Scott that we
hereafter recognize a portion of State Highway Route 99 in his
memory; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the portion of State Highway Route 99
between the  Cities of Salida and Modesto  
Pelandale Avenue exit and Junction 219  in Stanislaus County is
hereby designated the CHP Officer Earl Scott 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 the special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
covering that cost, to erect those signs; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit a copy of this
resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.