PRINTER'S NO.  3460

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

2343

Session of

2012

  

  

INTRODUCED BY SONNEY, ADOLPH, AUMENT, BAKER, BARBIN, BARRAR, BEAR, BOYD, BRENNAN, CARROLL, CAUSER, CLYMER, COX, DALEY, DENLINGER, DiGIROLAMO, EMRICK, J. EVANS, EVERETT, FABRIZIO, FLECK, FREEMAN, GABLER, GEIST, GEORGE, GILLEN, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GRELL, HAHN, HARKINS, HEFFLEY, HELM, HESS, HICKERNELL, HORNAMAN, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, W. KELLER, KNOWLES, LONGIETTI, MAJOR, MALONEY, MARSICO, METCALFE, METZGAR, MICOZZIE, MILLARD, MILLER, MULLERY, NEUMAN, OBERLANDER, O'NEILL, PICKETT, PYLE, QUINN, RAPP, RAVENSTAHL, READSHAW, REED, ROAE, ROCK, SAINATO, SANTARSIERO, SANTONI, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, STEVENSON, SWANGER, TOEPEL, VEREB AND WATSON, MAY 2, 2012

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 2, 2012  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Designating the eastbound bridge carrying Interstate 90 over

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Six-Mile Creek in Harborcreek Township, Erie County, as the

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Senior Airman Bryan R. Bell Memorial Bridge.

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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.  Senior Airman Bryan R. Bell Memorial Bridge.

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(a)  Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as

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follows:

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(1)  United States Air Force Senior Airman Bryan R. Bell,

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age 23, was killed in action on January 5, 2012, while

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serving in Afghanistan with the Air Force's Explosive

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Ordnance Disposal Division.

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(2)  Senior Airman Bryan R. Bell was killed when his

 


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vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in Shir

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ghazi, Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

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(3)  Senior Airman Bryan R. Bell was a 2006 graduate of

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Harborcreek High School in Harborcreek, Pennsylvania.

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(4)  Senior Airman Bryan R. Bell enlisted in the Air

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Force in 2006 and was assigned to the 2nd Civil Engineer

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Squadron, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana. He had been

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serving in Afghanistan since November of 2011.

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(5)  Senior Airman Bryan R. Bell is survived by his wife,

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Alaina, and his parents.

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(b)  Designation.--The eastbound bridge carrying Interstate

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90 over Six-Mile Creek in Harborcreek Township, Erie County, is

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hereby designated the Senior Airman Bryan R. Bell Memorial

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Bridge.

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

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maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to

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traffic in both directions on the highway.

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Section 2.  Effective date.

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This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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