Bill Text: CA SCR111 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Downey Police Officer Ricardo Galvez Memorial Highway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-05 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 95, Statutes of 2016. [SCR111 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SCR111-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 111	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  MAY 5, 2016
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 1, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 10, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Mendoza

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   Relative to the Downey Police Officer Ricardo Galvez Memorial
Highway.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 111, Mendoza. Downey Police Officer Ricardo Galvez Memorial
Highway.
   This measure would designate the portion of Interstate 5 between
specified bridges in the City of Downey in the County of Los Angeles
as the Downey Police Officer Ricardo Galvez Memorial Highway. The
measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine
the cost for appropriate designation signs, as specified, and, upon
receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to
erect those signs.



   WHEREAS, City of Downey Police Officer Ricardo Galvez was born on
April 2, 1986, to Margarita Galvez in the City of Los Angeles; and
   WHEREAS, Ricardo was raised in the Cities of Los Angeles and Bell
Gardens, California, where he attended elementary school and high
school; and
   WHEREAS, Ricardo began his law enforcement career in 2006 when he
was hired by the Downey Police Department as a police aide; and
   WHEREAS, In 2008, Ricardo enlisted in the United States Marine
Corps Reserve and was stationed out of the Cities of Pico Rivera and
Los Alamitos; and
   WHEREAS, Ricardo served as a Marine Corps Reservist for
approximately six years, during which time he was deployed overseas
as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom in Afghanistan and Iraq; and
   WHEREAS, Ricardo was hired by the Downey Police Department as a
police cadet in March 2010, graduated from the Orange County Sheriff'
s Academy in September 2010, and began his career as a Downey Police
Officer when he was sworn in on September 2, 2010; and
   WHEREAS, Over the next five years, Ricardo worked patrol,
establishing himself as a competent and compassionate police officer,
and strove to be a K-9 officer, volunteering to become an "agitator"
to better prepare himself for the position; and
   WHEREAS, On November 18, 2015, after finishing a training session
with the department's K-9 team, Ricardo returned to the station to
complete his shift and, while he was seated in his vehicle adjacent
to the police station, two individuals approached his car on foot and
the individual on the driver's side of the vehicle fired one round
from a handgun into Ricardo's vehicle, striking and killing him; and
   WHEREAS, Ricardo is survived by his mother, Margarita Galvez, his
sisters, Sandra and Nancy, and his brother, Peter; and
   WHEREAS, Ricardo's compassion and willingness to help others was
always on display, and he routinely volunteered his time to coach
kids from his home neighborhood in Boyle Heights at "State Park"; and

   WHEREAS, That willingness to help was evident when Ricardo, after
stopping an elderly female for having expired registration and
discovering that she had recently lost her husband and did not have
the money to register her vehicle, decided to let her go with a
warning and then paid her registration himself; and
   WHEREAS, Ricardo was an avid runner and fitness fanatic who could
often be seen training for the Baker to Vegas Challenge Cup Relay,
which is often referred to as the ultimate foot pursuit, and is a
difficult 20 stage, 120-mile relay race that starts in Baker,
California, and ends in Las Vegas, Nevada; and
   WHEREAS, Ricardo was not only a valued member of his Baker to
Vegas Challenge Cup Relay team, but was also instrumental in
organizing the Downey Police squad for the event; and
   WHEREAS, It is appropriate to memorialize Ricardo's sacrifice by
naming the portion of Interstate 5 in the City of Downey in the
County of Los Angeles as the Downey Police Officer Ricardo Galvez
Memorial Highway; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby designates the
portion of Interstate 5 between the San Gabriel River Bridge (bridge
number 53-213) at postmile 7.06 and the Rio Hondo River Bridge
(bridge number 53-639) at postmile 9.46 in the City of Downey in the
County of Los Angeles as the Downey Police Officer Ricardo Galvez
Memorial Highway; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the costs of erecting appropriate signs, which shall
include this special designation and the badge and patch of the
Downey Police Department, consistent with the signing requirements
for the state highway system, and, upon receiving donations from
nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Director of Transportation and to the author for
appropriate distribution.