Pennsylvania Governor Corbett Signs Bill Honoring Medal of Honor Recipient

 

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HARRISBURG, Pa., May 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Governor Tom Corbett today signed into law Senate Bill 199, which designates a 12-mile section of Interstate 78 in Berks County as the Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger Memorial Highway.

Etchberger, of Hamburg, died in March 1968 while performing secret operations in Laos. Posthumously, the Air Force made him a chief master sergeant and he was named a Medal of Honor recipient last year.

To read the full text of the bill signed into law today, visit the General Assembly’s website at www.legis.state.pa.us.  Or full text below

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PRINTER’S NO.  170
	THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
	SENATE BILL
No. 199 Session of 2011
	INTRODUCED BY ARGALL, RAFFERTY AND FOLMER, JANUARY 20, 2011
	REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 20, 2011
	AN ACT
1	Designating a portion of Interstate 78 in Berks County as the
2	CMSgt. Richard L. Etchberger Memorial Highway.
3	The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4	hereby enacts as follows:
5	Section 1.  The CMSgt. Richard L. Etchberger Memorial Highway.
6	(a)  Designation.–Interstate 78 in Berks County from mile
7	marker 23 to mile marker 35 is hereby designated as the CMSgt.
8	Richard L. Etchberger Memorial Highway.
9	(b)  Signs.–The Department of Transportation shall erect and
10	maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway
11	designated under subsection (a) to traffic in both directions.
12	Section 2.  Effective date.
13	This act shall take effect immediately.