PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1141

PRINTER'S NO.  1378

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

988

Session of

2009

  

  

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, MARSHALL, D.COSTA, WALKO, EVERETT, KULA, YOUNGBLOOD, MAHONEY, HESS, GIBBONS AND MURT, MARCH 18, 2009

  

  

AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MARCH 31, 2009   

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Designating the bridge carrying Walnut Street over the Shenango

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

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Sgt. David W. Wallace III Memorial Bridge.

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The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:

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

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

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

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

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Marine Corps, who was awarded during his service the Purple

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

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Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, the Afghanistan

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Campaign Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Humanitarian Service

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Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, Global War on Terrorism

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Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal,

 


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National Defense Service Medal and Good Conduct Medal Award.

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

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January 27, 2009, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Bridge in Sharpsville Borough, Mercer County.

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

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Mercer County, carrying State Route 3018 over the Shenango

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River, is hereby designated as the Sgt. David W. Wallace III

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Memorial Bridge.

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

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maintain appropriate signs on the bridge to mark the designation 

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at each end of the bridge.

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Section 2.  Effective date.

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This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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