Bill Text: CA SCR64 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Sergeant Gilbert Cortez and K-9 Mattie Memorial Highway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-02-06 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 7, Statutes of 2014. [SCR64 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SCR64-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: SCR 64	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER  7
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  FEBRUARY 6, 2014
	ADOPTED IN SENATE  FEBRUARY 3, 2014
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 29, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 14, 2014
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Roth

                        AUGUST 12, 2013

   Relative to the Sergeant Gilbert Cortez and K-9 Mattie Memorial
Highway.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 64, Roth. Sergeant Gilbert Cortez and K-9 Mattie Memorial
Highway.
   This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway
Route 15 in the County of Riverside as the Sergeant Gilbert Cortez
and K-9 Mattie 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 the cost, to erect those signs.



   WHEREAS, Gilbert Cortez was born on October 4, 1966; and
   WHEREAS, Mr. Cortez was raised in the City of Corona and attended
Norco High School, where he played baseball; and
   WHEREAS, On September 17, 1990, Mr. Cortez began his career with
the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; and
   WHEREAS, Mr. Cortez was first assigned to the California
Institution for Men in Chino and then transferred to Calipatria State
Prison on October 29, 1992, where he became part of the
Investigative Services Unit; and
   WHEREAS, While at Calipatria State Prison, Mr. Cortez was promoted
to the rank of sergeant; and
   WHEREAS, Sergeant Cortez then transferred to the California
Rehabilitation Center on October 29, 2001, to return to his hometown
of Corona; and
   WHEREAS, Sergeant Cortez held various positions at the California
Rehabilitation Center and was able to join the Investigative Services
Unit once again as an investigator; and
   WHEREAS, In 2011, Sergeant Cortez became a part of the Southern
Regional K-9 Unit, partnering with K-9 Mattie, who was certified to
search for contraband and narcotics; and
   WHEREAS, K-9 Mattie was a Belgian Malinois who was donated by a
private citizen in the San Diego area; and
   WHEREAS, Sergeant Cortez, at the age of 46, and K-9 Mattie were
killed in an automobile accident on State Highway Route 79 near San
Felipe Road in the County of San Diego on March 25, 2013; and
   WHEREAS, K-9 Mattie died at the scene of the accident, while
Sergeant Cortez succumbed to his injuries at a local fire station
before an emergency services helicopter could transport him to a
trauma center; and
   WHEREAS, At the time of the accident, Sergeant Cortez was part of
a convoy of state corrections K-9 officers that was en route to
inspect the La Cima Conservation Fire Camp, an inmate-staffed
firefighting outpost in a rural part of the County of San Diego; and
   WHEREAS, Sergeant Cortez was well loved and respected in the
Eastvale, Corona, and Norco communities; and
   WHEREAS, Sergeant Cortez is survived by his wife, two children,
and parents; 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 State Highway Route 15 from Second Street in the City of
Norco to Limonite Avenue in the City of Eastvale, in the County of
Riverside, as the Sergeant Gilbert Cortez and K-9 Mattie 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 this special
designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources
sufficient to cover 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.