PRINTER'S NO.  168

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

218

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY SAYLOR, MILLER, GILLESPIE, PERRY, DePASQUALE, GROVE, TALLMAN, BEAR, BOBACK, BOYD, B. BOYLE, BRADFORD, BROOKS, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, CONKLIN, D. COSTA, CREIGHTON, CUTLER, DiGIROLAMO, EVERETT, FARRY, GEIST, GEORGE, GOODMAN, GRELL, HAHN, HENNESSEY, HESS, HICKERNELL, HORNAMAN, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, M.K. KELLER, KILLION, KNOWLES, KORTZ, KOTIK, MAJOR, MARSHALL, MARSICO, MICOZZIE, MILLARD, MURT, MUSTIO, O'NEILL, PAYNE, PEIFER, PICKETT, PYLE, RAPP, READSHAW, REESE, ROAE, ROCK, SCAVELLO, SONNEY, STEVENSON, SWANGER, VEREB, VULAKOVICH, WHITE, YOUNGBLOOD, DENLINGER AND QUINN, JANUARY 25, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 25, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Designating State Route 462 from its intersection with U.S.

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Route 30 in West Manchester Township, York County, to the

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point where it meets State Route 24 in Springettsbury 

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Township, York County, as the Korean War Veterans Memorial

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Highway.

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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.  Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway.

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

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follows:

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(1)  The Korean War was waged from June of 1950 to July

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of 1953 and ended with a negotiated armistice. Officially,

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the United States' presence in Korea was a police action.

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(2)  One million five hundred thousand Americans served

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in the Korean War. Nearly 37,000 Americans died in the

 


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conflict and 103,000 others were wounded. Approximately 8,000

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Americans are still listed as missing in action.

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(b)  Designation.--State Route 462 from its intersection with 

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U.S. Route 30 in West Manchester Township, York County, to the

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point where it meets State Route 24 in Springettsbury Township,

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York County, is designated as the Korean War Veterans Memorial

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Highway.

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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.

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Section 2.  Effective date.

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This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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