HJR 23-1020 — Honoring Police Officer Julian Becerra

HOUSEFirst JOINTRegular RESOLUTIONSession 23-1020Seventy-fourth BYGeneral REPRESENTATIVE(S)Assembly Bradfield,STATE Bottoms,OF DeGraaf,COLORADO English,ENGROSSED Pugliese,LLS Snyder,NO. Vigil, Wilson, Armagost, Bacon, Bird, Bockenfeld, Boesenecker, Bradley, Brown, Catlin, Daugherty, deGruy Kennedy, Dickson, Duran, Evans, Froelich, Garcia, Gonzales-Gutierrez, Hamrick, Hartsook, Herod, Jodeh, Joseph, Kipp, Lieder, Lindsay, Lindstedt, Luck, Lukens, Lynch, Mabrey, Marshall, Martinez, McCormick, McLachlan, Ortiz, Parenti, Ricks, Sirota, Story, Taggart, Titone, Valdez, Velasco, Weinberg, Weissman, Willford, Winter T., Woodrow, Young, McCluskie;

|R23-1008.01 alsoJustin SENATOR(S)McCabe x4143 HJR23-1020 HOUSE SPONSORSHIP Bradfield, Bottoms,DeGraaf,English,Pugliese,Snyder,Vigil,Wilson,Armagost,Bacon, Bird, Bockenfeld, Boesenecker, Bradley, Brown, Catlin, Daugherty, deGruy Kennedy, Dickson, Duran, Evans, Froelich, Garcia, Gonzales-Gutierrez, Hamrick, Hartsook, Herod, Jodeh, Joseph, Kipp, Lieder, Lindsay, Lindstedt, Luck, Lukens, Lynch, Mabrey, Marshall, Martinez,McCluskie,McCormick,McLachlan,Ortiz,Parenti,Ricks,Sirota,Story,Taggart, Titone, Valdez, Velasco, Weinberg, Weissman, Willford, Winter T., Woodrow, Young SENATE SPONSORSHIP Gardner, Exum, Liston, Lundeen, Pelton.Pelton R.

R.,House Baisley,Committees Bridges,Senate Buckner,Committees Coleman,HOUSE Cutter,JOINT Danielson,RESOLUTION Fields,23-1020 Ginal,C Gonzales,ONCERNING Hansen,HONORING Hinrichsen,POLICE JaquezO Lewis,FFICER Kirkmeyer,JULIAN Kolker,BECERRA Moreno,. Mullica, Pelton B., Priola, Rich, Roberts, Rodriguez, Simpson, Smallwood, Sullivan, Van Winkle, Will, Winter F., Zenzinger, Fenberg.

CONCERNINGWHEREAS, HONORINGJulian POLICEBecerra, OFFICER.a police officer with the Fountain Police Department, departed this life on February11, 2023, at the age of 35;

JULIANand BECERRA.WHEREAS, Officer Becerra was born on September 8, 1987, in Chihuahua,Mexico,andmovedtotheUnitedStateswithhisfamilywhen he was only 10 years of age;

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andDashes WHEREAS,through Prior to joining the Fountainwords Policeor Department,numbers Officerindicate Becerradeletions worked for the El Paso County Sheriff's Office from 2014existing tolaw. 2018, first as a security technician for the county jail in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and later as a deputy sheriff, and was also a veteran of the United States Air Force;

and WHEREAS, Officer Becerra diedworked infor the lineEl ofPaso duty,County safeguardingSheriff's andOffice protectingfrom the2014 community he had sworn to serve,2018,firstasasecuritytechnicianforthecountyjail havingin sustainedColorado criticalSprings,Colorado,andlaterasadeputysheriff,andwasalsoaveteranof injuriesthe afterUnited aStates tragicAir fallForce; from an overpass on February 2, 2023, while in foot pursuit of suspects;

and WHEREAS,OfficerBecerradiedinthelineofduty,safeguarding and protecting the community he had sworn to serve, having sustained critical injuries after a tragic fall from an overpass on February 2, 2023, while in foot pursuit of suspects;

and WHEREAS, The funeral procession in Colorado Springs for Officer Becerra, which began at Penrose Hospital and concluded at the El Paso County Coroner's Office, featured the participation of over 100 vehicles, exemplifying the tremendous outpouring of support and appreciationappreciationforOfficerBecerrathathasarisenfromlawenforcementand for Officer Becerra that has arisen from law enforcement and the community at large in light of his passing;

and WHEREAS, In the words of Fountain Police Department's Chief of Police, Chris Heberer, Officer Becerra was "the ultimate quiet professional", an officer who "did policing the right way ...

and WHEREAS, Officer Becerra spent his entire professional career tirelessly providing peace and safety to all those around him and to the larger communities he was a part of, spent his life endlessly loving and nurturing his family, and now rests in the memory, with all the gratitude -2- 1020 and deep appreciation, of all the citizens of the state of Colorado;

now, therefore, PAGE 2-HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 23-1020 Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Seventy-fourth General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate concurring herein:

BeBeItFurtherResolved,ThatcopiesofthisJointResolutionbesent It Further Resolved, That copies of this Joint Resolution be sent to the Fountain Police Department, the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, the Colorado Springs Police Department, Penrose Hospital, Flight for Life Colorado, the Colorado Springs Police Protective Association, the Colorado State Patrol, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and Colorado Governor Jared Polis.

|-3- af),1020 Julie iY | Steve Fenberg SPEAKER OF THE slOUsE PRESIDENT OF OF REPRESENTATIVES THE SENATE Crycte ch ANearkerr Robin Jones Cindi L.

Markwell CHIEF CLERK OF T OUSE SECRETARY OF OF REPRESENTATIVES THE SENATE PAGE 3-HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 23-1020