BILL NUMBER: SCR 120	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 26, 2010
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 31, 2010
	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, Denham. CHP Officer Earl Scott Memorial Highway.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway
Route 99 in Stanislaus County as the CHP 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.



   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 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.