Bill Text: IA HR109 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A resolution to recognize and honor Officers Susan Farrell and Carlos Puente-Morales posthumously for their service to this state.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 31-11)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-27 - Resolution adopted. H.J. 680. [HR109 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HR109-Introduced.html

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House Resolution 109 - Introduced

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                    HOUSE RESOLUTION NO.    
         BY  NUNN, WATTS, DOLECHECK, ROGERS, McKEAN, FISHER,
       HOLZ, KRESSIG, SHEETS, MOORE, JONES, R. TAYLOR, DEYOE,
        GASSMAN, ZUMBACH, BRECKENRIDGE, ISENHART, GUSTAFSON,
        STAED, HOLT, OLSON, UPMEYER, JACOBY, SALMON, LANDON,
          SEXTON, OURTH, HUSEMAN, FRY, JACOBSEN, LUNDGREN,
           ABDUL=SAMAD, WHEELER, MEYER, HAGENOW, KOESTER,
          MOMMSEN, BACON, BERGAN, GASKILL, BEST, KURTH, and
                              HIGHFILL
  1  1 A Resolution to recognize and honor Officers Susan
  1  2    Farrell and Carlos Puente=Morales posthumously for
  1  3    their service to this state.
  1  4    WHEREAS, in the early hours of March 26, 2016,
  1  5 Des Moines Police Officers Susan Farrell and Carlos
  1  6 Puente=Morales died in a head=on collision with a drunk
  1  7 driver on Interstate 80 in Dallas County; and
  1  8    WHEREAS, Officers Farrell and Puente=Morales
  1  9 graduated from the Des Moines Police Academy on October
  1 10 2, 2015, and had served as police officers with the Des
  1 11 Moines Police Department for less than six months when
  1 12 they died in the line of duty; and
  1 13    WHEREAS, Officer Farrell, who was 30 years old at
  1 14 the time of her death, had worked for the Polk County
  1 15 Sheriff's Office for several years before joining the
  1 16 Des Moines Police Department, and was the first female
  1 17 officer in Iowa killed in the line of duty; and
  1 18    WHEREAS, Officer Puente=Morales, who was 34 years
  1 19 old at the time of his death, served in both Iraq and
  1 20 Afghanistan as a member of the Iowa National Guard, and
  1 21 had worked for the Franklin County Sheriff's Department
  1 22 and the Ottumwa Police Department for several years
  1 23 before joining the Des Moines Police Department; and
  1 24    WHEREAS, Officers Farrell and Puente=Morales
  1 25 dedicated their careers to public service and are
  1 26 remembered by their peers and their communities as
  1 27 models for what a good public servant should be; and
  1 28    WHEREAS, on February 13, 2018, the Dallas County
  2  1 Board of Supervisors passed a resolution in support of
  2  2 the designation of a memorial bridge, near the area of
  2  3 the accident site on Interstate 80, to honor the memory
  2  4 of Officers Farrell and Puente=Morales; NOW THEREFORE,
  2  5    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, That
  2  6 the House of Representatives rises to honor Officers
  2  7 Susan Farrell and Carlos Puente=Morales, who devoted
  2  8 their lives to protecting the public, for their service
  2  9 and sacrifice to the State of Iowa; and
  2 10    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That copies of this
  2 11 Resolution be prepared for and transmitted to
  2 12 the families of Officers Susan Farrell and Carlos
  2 13 Puente=Morales.
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