PRINTER'S NO. 115
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
150
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY BURNS, GUENST, KINSEY, RYAN, COX, LONGIETTI, HILL-
EVANS, JOZWIAK, DEASY, FREEMAN, WEBSTER, NEILSON AND
GALLOWAY, JANUARY 13, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 13, 2021
AN ACT
Designating a bridge, identified as Bridge Key 8391, on that
portion of Pennsylvania Route 53 over Laurel Run, also known
as Lost Creek, in Dean Township, Cambria County, as the
Seaman 2nd Class Louis J. Benzie WWII Memorial Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Seaman 2nd Class Louis J. Benzie WWII Memorial
Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) One of nine children, Louis J. Benzie was born on
February 25, 1924, to Josephine and Louis Benzie in Dysart,
Pennsylvania.
(2) He served in the United States Navy during World War
II as a Seaman 2nd Class, and was assigned to the destroyer
U.S.S. Maddox which departed Norfolk, Virginia, on June 8,
1943.
(3) The U.S.S. Maddox became a unit of Task Force 81,
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