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H 3003

Officer Matthew Logan Hare Memorial Avenue

2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Thomas Beach and 1 co-sponsor

Requests SCDOT to name a Main Street segment in Easley as 'Officer Matthew Logan Hare Memorial Avenue' and place signage honoring the fallen officer.

Adopted, returned to House with concurrence
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Bill Summary · H 3003

Summary — H. 3003: "Officer Matthew Logan Hare Memorial Avenue" (Concurrent Resolution)

Status: Adopted (concurred), returned to House with concurrence
Introduced/Prefiled: Prefiled 12/05/2024; Introduced January 14, 2025
Classification: Concurrent resolution (South Carolina General Assembly)

Purpose / Intent

This concurrent resolution requests the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) to name a specific portion of Main Street in the Town of Easley (Pickens County) in memory of Officer Matthew Logan Hare and to install appropriate signage or markers bearing that name.

Key provisions

  • Request that SCDOT name the portion of Main Street in Easley from Wilbur Street to North Pendleton Street as:
    • "Officer Matthew Logan Hare Memorial Avenue"
  • Request that SCDOT erect appropriate signs or markers along that portion of the roadway displaying the designated name.
  • Direct that a copy of the resolution be forwarded to the Department of Transportation.

Background on Officer Matthew Logan Hare (as stated in the resolution)

  • Born February 3, 2001; graduate of Easley High School (2019).
  • Entered the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy in 2022 and became an officer with the Easley Police Department.
  • Killed in the line of duty on August 2, 2023, after being struck by an Amtrak train while attempting to save a woman threatening self-harm on railroad tracks along East Main Street in Easley.
  • Inducted into the South Carolina Law Enforcement Hall of Fame in 2024 for bravery and heroism.

Sponsors / Legislative handling

  • Introduced in the House and advanced by the Committee on Invitations and Memorial Resolutions, which reported favorably (committee report dated January 30, 2025).
  • Committee sponsor(s) listed as Representatives Collins and Beach in committee reports.
  • Procedural notes in the file indicate the resolution was adopted by the House, sent to the Senate, recalled at one point, and ultimately adopted with concurrence (returned to the House with concurrence).

Impact and considerations

  • Primary effect is honorary and symbolic: it designates a commemorative name for a defined roadway segment and requests signage.
  • No appropriation or specific funding is attached in the text; costs for signage and installation would be subject to SCDOT policies and available funds unless otherwise funded.
  • As a concurrent resolution requesting executive agency action, the measure expresses legislative intent and asks an agency to act; it does not itself create a statutory change to addresses or municipal records beyond the requested signage.

Note on docket materials

The legislative file for H.3003 also includes an unrelated Massachusetts bill titled "An Act relative to a COVID-19 retirement credit study." This summary pertains only to the South Carolina concurrent resolution to name the Easley roadway in memory of Officer Matthew Logan Hare.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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