PRINTER'S NO. 1776
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1411
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY WENTLING, MAY 19, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 19, 2017
AN ACT
Designating a portion of State Route 18 in West Fallowfield
Township, Crawford County, as the Staff Sergeant James
Douglas Mowris Memorial Highway.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Staff Sergeant James Douglas Mowris Memorial
Highway.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Staff Sergeant James Douglas Mowris, a native of
Adamsville, Crawford County, enlisted in the United States
Army in 1984 after graduation from Conneaut Lake High School.
(2) Over a period of nearly 20 years, Staff Sergeant
Mowris honorably served his country on active duty with the
United States Army and with the Army Reserve.
(3) Staff Sergeant Mowris served in operations in
locations across the globe, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia,
Somalia, Honduras, El Salvador, Kosovo, Cuba and Afghanistan.
(4) The distinguished military career of Staff Sergeant
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Mowris ended on January 29, 2004, when he was killed along
with seven other soldiers in an explosion during the clearing
of an enemy weapons and ammunition cache in Ghazni,
Afghanistan.
(b) Designation.--The section of State Route 18 in West
Fallowfield Township, Crawford County, from the intersection
with State Route 322 to the Crawford/Mercer County Line is
designated as the Staff Sergeant James Douglas Mowris Memorial
Highway.
(b) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to
traffic in both directions on the highway.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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