HOUSE AMENDED

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY WONDERLING, STOUT, EARLL, RAFFERTY, BOSCOLA, FONTANA, TARTAGLIONE, O'PAKE, ERICKSON, GREENLEAF, WAUGH, ALLOWAY, WASHINGTON, DINNIMAN, BROWNE AND COSTA, APRIL 3, 2009

AS AMENDED ON SECOND CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENATIVES, JUNE 15, 2009   

AN ACT

Designating Bushkill Drive, State Route 2019, Northampton

County, as the Victor W. Anckaitis Memorial Highway; and

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designating a portion of State Route 2017 in Lower Macungie

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

Road.

WHEREAS, Victor W. Anckaitis served the people of the

Commonwealth as the first Secretary of Transportation; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Anckaitis dedicated himself to the improvement

of the transportation network in Pennsylvania through his

service in leadership roles as the chief engineer for the

Department of Highways, Superintendent of Highways in

Northampton County and chairman of the Lehigh and Northampton

Transportation Authority; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Anckaitis also served as a member of the

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, the State Transportation

Commission, The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission,

the Governor's Council on Natural Resources and Beauty and the

Lehigh Valley Flood Control Council; and 

WHEREAS, Mr. Anckaitis received an honorary doctorate in

engineering from Lafayette College and numerous other civic and

professional awards.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Victor W. Anckaitis Memorial Highway.

(a)  Designation.--The section of Bushkill Drive, State Route

2019, in Northampton County, from the intersection with State

Route 1002, known as Tatamy Road, to the intersection with 13th

Street in the City of Easton, is designated and shall be known

as the Victor W. Anckaitis Memorial Highway.

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

maintain appropriate signs which shall display the name of the

highway designated in subsection (a) at each end.

Section 2.  Sgt. Ashly L. Moyer Memorial Road.

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(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 3.  Effective date.

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This act shall take effect in 60 days.