THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY REICHLEY, BEYER, DAY, BAKER, BELFANTI, BISHOP, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, CLYMER, CREIGHTON, CUTLER, DALEY, DELOZIER, DiGIROLAMO, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GODSHALL, GRUCELA, HELM, M. KELLER, W. KELLER, KILLION, KOTIK, MANN, MARSHALL, MENSCH, MILLER, MUSTIO, M. O'BRIEN, PALLONE, PARKER, PAYNE, PICKETT, RAPP, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, SWANGER, TALLMAN, TRUE, VEREB, BOYD, VULAKOVICH AND MILLARD, APRIL 22, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 22, 2009  

AN ACT

Designating a portion of State Route 2017 in Lower Macungie

Township, Lehigh County, as the Sgt. Ashly L. Moyer Memorial

Road.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Sgt. Ashly L. Moyer Memorial Road.

(a)  Declaration of policy.--The General Assembly finds and

declares as follows:

(1)  Sgt. Ashly L. Moyer was born in Allentown, Lehigh

County, and graduated from Emmaus High School in 2003.

(2)  In 2004 Sgt. Moyer graduated from the Army Military

Police School in Missouri and served at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,

and Bamberg, Germany, before being assigned to Iraq in the

630th Military Police Company, 793rd Military Police

Battalion, of the United States Army.

(3)  Sgt. Moyer made the supreme sacrifice on March 3,

2007, when the 21-year-old was killed while on routine patrol

and driving an armored patrol vehicle. She was driving the

second vehicle in a convoy of four. As the lead vehicle drove

over a buried bomb, insurgents detonated it by remote

control. The occupants of the lead vehicle survived, but the

explosion detonated the fuel tank on Moyer's vehicle,

creating a fireball that killed her and the two sergeants

with her.

(4)  Inspired by her family's military lineage, her

Marine grandfather having served in World War II, Korea and

Vietnam, Moyer joined the Army Reserve through the delayed

enlistment program while still attending Emmaus High School.

(5)  At the time of her death she was survived by her

parents, Jane Drumheller of Pike County and Michael Moyer of

Lower Macungie, brothers Tyler, 12, and Kyle, 10, a sister,

Teagan, 8, and a stepsister, Karissa, 21. She was also

survived by her stepparents, grandfather and great-

grandmother.

(b)  Designation.--State Route 2017, Brookside Road in Lower

Macungie Township, Lehigh County, from the intersection with

State Route 2021, Buckeye Road, to the intersection with State

Route 222 is hereby designated as the Sgt. Ashly L. Moyer

Memorial Road.

(c)  Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and

maintain appropriate signs to indicate the designation under

subsection (b).

Section 2.  Effective date.

This act shall take effect in 60 days.