PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 2416, 2526

PRINTER'S NO. 2898

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No.

2085

Session of

2021

INTRODUCED BY LAWRENCE, BERNSTINE, R. BROWN, DIAMOND, MUSTELLO,

OTTEN, SCHMITT, SCHROEDER, STAMBAUGH, GILLEN AND KINKEAD,

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

administered by the Secretary of Highways and by the

Department of Highways relating thereto," providing for

commemorative designations; and making editorial changes.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. The title and section 102 of the act of June 1,

1945 (P.L.1242, No.428), known as the State Highway Law, are

amended to read:

Relating to roads, streets, highways and bridges; amending,

highways taken over by the Commonwealth as State highways under

the provisions of any act of Assembly. Unless clearly so

intended, the term shall not include any street in any city,

borough or incorporated town, even though the same may have been

taken over as a State highway.

(2) "Rural State highway system" shall mean and include all

roads and highways taken over by the Commonwealth as State

highways under the provisions of the act, approved the twenty-

second day of June, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one

(Pamphlet Laws, five hundred ninety-four), act number two

Transportation and local authorities, persons, associations and

corporations for sharing the cost of the maintenance and

construction of such highways; and making an appropriation to

carry out the provisions of said act," and its supplements and

amendments, and all other roads and highways specifically

designated as rural State highways.

(3) "Department" shall mean the Department of [Highways]

Transportation of the Commonwealth.

(4) "Secretary" shall mean the Secretary of [Highways]

Transportation of the Commonwealth.

designation by the authority with jurisdiction over the bridge,

highway, interchange or portion of the turnpike system, by name

or number.

(6) "STATE-OWNED TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE" SHALL MEAN

ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

(I) A STATE-OWNED HIGHWAY, INCLUDING A PORTION THEREOF.

(II) A STATE-OWNED BRIDGE.

(III) A STATE-OWNED EXPRESSWAY OR INTERSTATE INTERCHANGE.

(IV) A PORTION OF THE TURNPIKE SYSTEM.

Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:

Section 204.1. Commemorative Designations.-- (a) (1) At the

secretary's discretion and subject to the limitations in

subsection (d), the secretary may, upon receipt of a completed

application under subsection (b) and the fee required under

subsection (c), approve a commemorative designation of a State-

owned bridge, highway or interchange STATE-OWNED TRANSPORTATION

INFRASTRUCTURE UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT honoring an

individual or group and direct the department to erect and

maintain appropriate signs for the commemorative designation.

INFRASTRUCTURE under the authority of the Pennsylvania Turnpike

Commission honoring an individual or group and erect and

maintain appropriate signs for the commemorative designation.

(b) An application for a commemorative designation under

subsection (a) may be submitted by an individual, organization

or a political subdivision and shall be submitted on a form and

in a manner as required by the department or the Pennsylvania

Turnpike Commission. The application shall include all of the

following:

(1) A petition containing a minimum of one hundred ( 100)

signatures supporting the commemorative designation from

residents of the county or counties in which the State-owned

bridge, highway or interchange or portion of the turnpike system

STATE-OWNED TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE is located.

(2) A description of the State-owned bridge, highway or

(4) Signed letters of support for the commemorative

designation from each member of the Senate and the House of

Representatives who represent each legislative district in which

the State-owned bridge, highway or interchange or portion of the

turnpike system STATE-OWNED TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE is

located.

(5) A resolution supporting the commemorative designation

approved by the governing body of each city, borough,

incorporated town or township in which the State-owned bridge,

highway, interchange, roundabout or portion of the turnpike

FELONY IN THIS COMMONWEALTH OR A SIMILAR OR EQUIVALENT OFFENSE

IN ANOTHER JURISDICTION.

(6) (7) Other information or supporting documentation as

required by the department or the Pennsylvania Turnpike

Commission.

(c) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), upon the

approval of an application for a commemorative designation under

subsection (a), the department or the Pennsylvania Turnpike

Commission shall require the applicant, prior to the

installation of signs for the commemorative designation, to

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission for a commemorative designation

approved under subsection (a) for any of the following:

(i) A member of the armed forces of the United States,

including a reserve component or National Guard, killed in the

line of duty.

(ii) A member of law enforcement killed in the line of duty.

(iii) An emergency responder killed in the line of duty.

(iv) A commemorative designation honoring a group consisting

of veterans, law enforcement or emergency responders or honoring

veterans, law enforcement or emergency responders generally.

(2) An individual who did not reside in this Commonwealth

during their lifetime.

(3) A private business.

(4) A not-for-profit organization, except for a not-for-

profit organization whose membership consists of a majority of

veterans, current or former members of law enforcement or

current or former emergency responders.

(5) A commemorative designation for a State-owned bridge,

highway or interchange or portion of the turnpike system STATE-

OWNED TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE previously designated under

Commission shall issue a report to the chairman and minority

chairman of the Transportation Committee of the Senate and the

chairman and minority chairman of the Transportation Committee

of the House of Representatives containing all of the following

for the previous calendar year:

(1) A list of all commemorative designations approved under

subsection (a).

(2) A biography or description of each individual or group

honored by a commemorative designation.

(3) Total amounts collected from the fee required under

commemorative designations for a State-owned bridge, highway or

interchange or portion of the turnpike system STATE-OWNED

TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE shall only be made by the

department or the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission after the

effective date of this section according to the provisions of

this section.

(G) AS USED IN THIS SECTION, THE TERM "CONVICTION" SHALL

MEAN A CONVICTION, A FINDING OF GUILTY OR THE ENTERING OF A PLEA

OF GUILTY OR NOLO CONTENDERE, WHETHER OR NOT JUDGMENT OF

SENTENCE HAS BEEN IMPOSED, AS DETERMINED BY THE LAW OF THE

Section 3. The provisions of this act shall not affect any

power of the department or any county or municipality to

designate, by letter, or name or number any highway or roadway

under the department's or county's or municipality's respective

jurisdictions, including any part or parts thereof, or any