THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY LONGIETTI, STEVENSON, BROOKS, BAKER, BELFANTI, BISHOP, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, CUTLER, DALLY, DERMODY, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, FRANKEL, GABLER, GEORGE, GERGELY, GRUCELA, HORNAMAN, JOSEPHS, M. KELLER, KOTIK, LENTZ, MANN, MARKOSEK, McGEEHAN, MELIO, MILLARD, MOUL, MURPHY, MUSTIO, M. O'BRIEN, PALLONE, PASHINSKI, PAYNE, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROAE, SAINATO, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, SONNEY, STERN, TALLMAN, TURZAI, VEREB, WHITE, VULAKOVICH AND MARSHALL, MARCH 18, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 18, 2009  

AN ACT

Designating the bridge carrying Walnut Street over the Shenango

River in the Borough of Sharpsville, Mercer County, as the

Sgt. David W. Wallace III Bridge.

The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:

(1)  David W. Wallace III, Sergeant, United States Marine

Corps, was born in Sharpsville Borough, on June 5, 1983.

(2)  He was a Combat Engineer with the 2nd Combat

Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, of the United States

Marine Corps, who was awarded during his service the Purple

Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal,

Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, the Afghanistan

Campaign Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Humanitarian Service

Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, Global War on Terrorism

Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal,

National Defense Service Medal and Good Conduct Medal Award.

(3)  He valiantly gave his life in the line of duty on

January 27, 2009, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Bridge in Sharpsville Borough, Mercer County.

(a)  Designation.--The bridge in the Borough of Sharpsville,

Mercer County, is hereby designated as the Sgt. David W. Wallace

III Bridge.

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

appropriate signs on the bridge to mark the designation.

Section 2.  Effective date.

This act shall take effect in 60 days.