PRINTER'S NO. 1045
No. 892 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY M. KELLER, BAKER, BARRAR, BELFANTI, BENNINGHOFF,
BOYD, BUXTON, CALTAGIRONE, CAPPELLI, CARROLL, CIVERA, CLYMER,
COHEN, COX, CREIGHTON, EVERETT, FABRIZIO, FAIRCHILD, FLECK,
FRANKEL, GABIG, GALLOWAY, GEIST, GEORGE, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH,
GODSHALL, GOODMAN, GRELL, HALUSKA, HARRIS, HERSHEY, HESS,
HICKERNELL, HORNAMAN, JAMES, KAUFFMAN, W. KELLER, KENNEY,
KIRKLAND, KORTZ, KOTIK, KULA, MAJOR, MANN, MARKOSEK, MARSICO,
METCALFE, MICOZZIE, MILLARD, MUSTIO, MYERS, NAILOR,
M. O'BRIEN, O'NEILL, PAYNE, PETRONE, PHILLIPS, PICKETT,
QUIGLEY, RAMALEY, RAPP, RAYMOND, REED, REICHLEY, ROHRER,
SCAVELLO, SCHRODER, SOLOBAY, SONNEY, STERN, R. STEVENSON,
SURRA, J. TAYLOR, TRUE, TURZAI, VEREB, VULAKOVICH, WALKO,
YOUNGBLOOD AND ROAE, MARCH 22, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 22, 2007
AN ACT
1 Designating a portion of State Route 74 in Perry County as the
2 Marine Lance Corporal Jason L. Frye Memorial Highway.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Marine Lance Corporal Jason L. Frye Memorial
6 Highway.
7 (a) Declaration of policy.--The General Assembly finds and
8 declares as follows:
9 (1) Jason L. Frye was born February 1, 1986. He
10 graduated from West Perry High School and in September 2004
11 enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He studied
12 carpentry at the county vocational technical school and was
1 an avid outdoorsman. He was a devout Lutheran and a member of
2 Mt. Zion Lutheran Church in his hometown of Landisburg, Perry
3 County.
4 (2) Frye entered the United States Marine Corps under
5 the Delayed Enlistment Program in December of 2003. He was
6 deployed to Iraq in July 2005 following basic training.
7 (3) Frye, a Private First Class on enlistment, was
8 promoted to Lance Corporal at the completion of his infantry
9 training.
10 (4) Lance Corporal Frye, age 19, served with distinction
11 in the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines, G Company, Weapons Platoon
12 until his death on October 6, 2005, in Fallujah, Iraq. He was
13 killed while on patrol with his unit by an improvised
14 explosive device (IED).
15 (b) Designation.--State Route 74 in Spring Township, Perry
16 County, from the intersection with State Route 274 southward to
17 the Cumberland County line is hereby designated as the Marine
18 Lance Corporal Jason L. Frye Memorial Highway.
19 (c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
20 maintain appropriate signs to indicate the designation under
21 subsection (b).
22 Section 2. Effective date.
23 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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