PRINTER'S NO. 2672
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1762
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY McCARTER, FREEMAN, KOTIK, DiGIROLAMO, BRIGGS,
CALTAGIRONE, O'BRIEN, MILLARD, KINSEY, DUSH, V. BROWN,
YOUNGBLOOD, DAVIS, DRISCOLL, SAMUELSON, THOMAS, VEREB,
READSHAW, SONNEY, MAHONEY, MAJOR, MILNE, DEAN, W. KELLER,
D. COSTA, NEILSON, DONATUCCI, HAHN, GIBBONS, A. HARRIS,
VITALI, QUINN, FRANKEL, DeLISSIO, HARHAI, M. DALEY, BRADFORD,
MARKOSEK, SCHWEYER, PASHINSKI, GROVE, DAVIDSON, EVERETT,
BISHOP, ROEBUCK, KILLION, WHEELAND, SAYLOR, MURT, BARBIN,
WARD AND PAYNE, DECEMBER 16, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, DECEMBER 16, 2015
AN ACT
Designating a bridge on that portion of Greenwood Avenue over
the SEPTA tracks in Cheltenham Township and Jenkintown
Borough, Montgomery County, as the Honorable Lawrence H.
Curry Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The Honorable Lawrence H. Curry Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) State Representative Lawrence Curry represented the
154th Legislative District from his election in 1992 until
2012.
(2) Before his election to the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives, Representative Curry served as a Jenkintown
Borough councilman and served two terms as a Montgomery
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County commissioner.
(3) Representative Curry has also served as an adjunct
professor at Arcadia University, Montgomery County Community
College, West Chester University and Rutgers-Camden
University. Representative Curry earned a bachelor of arts
degree and a master of arts degree from the University of
Pennsylvania.
(4) By way of holding leadership roles with numerous
civic and community organizations and his pointed legislative
efforts, Representative Curry strongly supported issues
affecting working families, senior citizens and children,
especially tax reform, equal opportunity, environmental
protection, health and education.
(5) In 1965, during the most turbulent time of the civil
rights movement, Representative Curry responded to Reverend
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s appeal to join him in the stand for
equality and justice in Selma, Alabama. This was a time when
the call for civil rights was often met with violence, but
Representative Curry went to Selma to march for what he
believed was right.
(6) Since his retirement from the General Assembly,
Representative Curry has continued his advocacy for the many
causes he so fervently fought for, including Holocaust
education and civil rights.
(7) Representative Curry currently resides in his
hometown of Jenkintown with his wife, Shirley. The couple has
three children, Jennifer Coleman, Jeffery Curry and Jacquelyn
Todaro; and eight grandchildren, Christina, Katherine, and
Benjamin Coleman, Emily, Dylan and Tyler Curry, and Courtney
and Jeremy Todaro.
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(b) Designation.--The bridge located on Greenwood Avenue
over the SEPTA tracks in Cheltenham Township and Jenkintown
Borough, Montgomery County, is hereby designated the Honorable
Lawrence H. Curry Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to
traffic in both directions on the bridge.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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