PRINTER'S NO. 925
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
748
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY BARTOLOTTA, JUNE 10, 2019
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 10, 2019
AN ACT
Designating a portion of Pennsylvania Route 50 in Independence
Township, Washington County, as the Lt. Col. Juanita L.
Warman Memorial Highway.
The General Assembly finds that:
(1) Lt. Col. Juanita L. Warman lived in Avella as a
child and attended elementary school and junior high school
there.
(2) Lt. Col. Juanita L. Warman attended the former
Langley High School in Pittsburgh and graduated from the
University of Pittsburgh with a master's degree in nursing.
(3) Lt. Col. Warman worked at the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center for a portion of her career, joined
the United States Army and, as a psychiatric nurse
practitioner, served in support of Operation Enduring Freedom
in 2006.
(4) Lt. Col. Warman was an expert in post-traumatic
stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.
(5) Lt. Col. Warman served a year in Germany at
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, a medical facility where
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soldiers wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq were treated before
being returned to the United States, and regularly
volunteered for trips to care for soldiers being transported
to Landstuhl.
(6) For her meritorious service at Landstuhl, Lt. Col.
Warman was awarded the Army Commendation Medal in 2006.
(7) On November 5, 2009, while at the Soldier Readiness
Processing Center in Fort Hood, Texas for deployment to Iraq,
Lt. Col Warman was killed during a shooting rampage in which
13 people were killed and 30 more were injured.
(8) Lt. Col. Warman's military career spanned 25 years
in active duty and the Army reserves.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Lt. Col. Juanita Warman Memorial Highway.
(a) Designation.--The section of Pennsylvania Route 50 in
Independence Township, Washington County, from Segment 70 to
Segment 80 is designated the Lt. Col. Juanita Warman Memorial
Highway.
(b) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to
traffic in both directions on the highway.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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