THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY FAIRCHILD, PHILLIPS AND HARRIS, JUNE 25, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 25, 2009  

AN ACT

Designating State Route 35 from Selinsgrove to the Snyder County

line near Richfield as the Pfc. Justin W. Dreese Memorial

Highway.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Pfc. Justin W. Dreese Memorial Highway.

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

follows:

(1)  Pfc. Justin W. Dreese, a 21-year-old from Freeburg,

Snyder County, died September 2, 2006, from injuries suffered

in a mortar attack while serving in Iraq as a member of the

82nd Airborne Division during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

(2)  Pfc. Dreese was a 2004 graduate of Selinsgrove High

School. He was deployed to Iraq in July 2006 as a paratrooper

in the 1st Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd

Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, based at Fort

Bragg, North Carolina.

(3)  Pfc. Dreese's patrol come under attack in Yusifiyah,

Iraq. Also killed in the combat was Sgt. Ralph N. Porras.

(4)  Pfc. Dreese was posthumously awarded the Purple

Heart.

(b)  Designation.--State Route 35 from Selinsgrove to the

Snyder County line near Richfield is hereby designated as the

Pfc. Justin W. Dreese Memorial Highway.

(c)  Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and

maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway

designated under subsection (b) to traffic in both directions.

Section 2.  Effective date.

This act shall take effect in 60 days.