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          Date of Hearing:   August 18, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
                               Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
                     SCR 119 (Fuller) - As Amended:  June 3, 2014

           SENATE VOTE  :  32-0
           
          SUBJECT  :  CHP Officer Gerald N. Harris Memorial Interchange

           SUMMARY  :   Designates an interchange in Kern County in honor of  
          fallen CHP Officer Gerald N. Harris. Specifically, this bill  :  

          1)Designates the interchange at State Route (SR) 99 and  
            eastbound SR 58 in Kern County as the CHP Officer Gerald N.  
            Harris Memorial Interchange.  

          2)Requests the Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to  
            determine the cost for appropriate signs, which shall include  
            the star of the Department of the California Highway Patrol  
            (CHP), showing this special designation and, upon receiving  
            donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect  
            those signs.  

           EXISTING LAW  :  Assigns Caltrans the responsibility of operating  
          and maintaining state highways, including 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  
          nonstate sources covering the cost.  

           COMMENTS  :  This bill designates the interchange at SR 99 and  
          eastbound SR 58 in Kern County as the CHP Officer Gerald N.  
          Harris Memorial Interchange. Gerald Harris was born in  
          Bakersfield in 1938, graduated from North High School there in  
          1957, and then enlisted in the Marine Corps. After being  
          honorably discharged from the Marines in 1965, he graduated from  
          the CHP Academy in 1967. Officer Harris served all but one year  
          of his CHP career in the Bakersfield area and it was there in  
          February 1974, while directing traffic at an intersection, that  
          he was struck by a vehicle. He survived the accident with what  
          appeared to be non-life threatening injuries, but subsequently  
          died of an embolism after being flown to San Francisco for  
          special medical treatment. Officer Harris is survived by his  








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          wife Sherril and his daughter Holly, who was eight at the time  
          of his death on February 27, 1974.  

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          California Association of Highway Patrolmen (sponsor)
           
           Opposition 
           
          None on file

           Analysis Prepared by :   Anya Lawler / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093