BILL ANALYSIS �
SCR 102
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SENATE THIRD READING
SCR 102 (Yee)
As Amended August 8, 2012
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :37-0
RULES 10-0
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|Ayes:|Skinner, Silva, Brownley, | | |
| |Butler, Carter, Donnelly, | | |
| |Eng, Feuer, Furutani, | | |
| |Knight | | |
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SUMMARY : Designates a segment of State Route (SR) 1 as the
Ranger Patricia M. Scully Memorial Highway. Specifically, this
resolution makes the following legislative findings:
1)Recounts the life and career of Patricia Scully, a California
Parks and Recreation Service Ranger who lost her life when she
as killed by a drunk driver while on patrol.
2)Designates the segment of SR 1 between State Highway Route 84
(San Gregorio Road) at postmile 18.189 and Verde Road/Lobitos
Creek Road at postmile 22.662, as the Ranger Patricia M.
Scully Memorial Highway.
3)Requests the Department of Transportation 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.
EXISTING LAW assigns Caltrans the responsibility to maintain and
operate state highways. This includes the installation and
maintenance of highway signs.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Senate Appropriations
Committee, pursuant to Senate Rules 28.8, negligible state
costs.
SCR 102
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COMMENTS : Born in Sacramento and raised on a ranch in Rio
Linda, Patricia Scully graduated from Rio Linda High School in
1969 and from California State University, Sacramento in 1974.
She served as a ranger in the California Parks and Recreation
Service, later renamed the Department of Parks and Recreation,
from 1974 until her death in the line of duty in 1976.
Stationed at Pescadero State Park, Ranger Scully was patrolling
the state beaches on Half Moon Bay on May 6, 1976, when a drunk
driver's vehicle hit her patrol vehicle head-on. Patricia M.
Scully was survived by her parents, four sisters, one brother,
and her fianc�e, a fellow park ranger. She was 25 years old
when she died. After her death, her friends and family set up a
memorial fund with the National Audubon Society that each year
sends people working in environmentally related fields to
Audubon training workshops.
Analysis Prepared by : Howard Posner/ TRANS./ 319-2093
FN: 0005892