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PRINTER'S NO. 1739
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1217
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY STEFANO, APRIL 28, 2016
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 28, 2016
AN ACT
Designating a portion of State Route 523 in Somerset County as
the Private First Class Nils G. Thompson Memorial Highway.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Private First Class Nils G. Thompson Memorial
Highway.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Private First Class (PFC) Nils G. Thompson of
Confluence, Somerset County, was assigned to the 1st
Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry
Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) in Operation Iraqi
Freedom.
(2) PFC Thompson was shot and killed on August 4, 2005,
by a sniper in Mosul, Iraq, one day after his 19th birthday.
(b) Designation.--A portion of State Route 523, also known
as Listonburg Road, in the Borough of Confluence, Somerset
County, from the northbound intersection of U.S. Route 40 to
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southbound mile marker 110, is hereby designated the Private
First Class Nils G. Thompson Memorial Highway.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the road to
traffic in both directions on the road.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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