Bill Text: NY S09301 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Designates a portion of the state and local highway system constituting route thirty-five as the "Westchester Purple Heart Highway".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-07 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [S09301 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09301-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9301--A
            Cal. No. 1662

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 10, 2024
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
          tee  discharged  and  said bill committed to the Committee on Rules --
          reported favorably from said committee, ordered to  a  third  reading,
          passed  by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote recon-
          sidered, restored to third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
          the state highway system as the "Westchester Purple Heart Highway"

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The highway law is amended by adding a new section  342-aaa
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 342-aaa. Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
     4  "Westchester  Purple Heart Highway". All that portion of the state high-
     5  way system constituting state route thirty-five beginning at the  inter-
     6  section  of  state route thirty-five and United States route two hundred
     7  two, continuing in a generally easterly direction,  and  terminating  at
     8  the  intersection of state route thirty-five and state route one hundred
     9  in the town of Somers, county of Westchester, shall  be  designated  and
    10  known as the "Westchester Purple Heart Highway".
    11    §  2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
    12  lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state  highway  system
    13  as  designated  pursuant  to section one of this act.  However, to avoid
    14  confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce,  the  desig-
    15  nation  called  for  pursuant to section one of this act shall be one of
    16  ceremonial nature and the official name of such  highway  shall  not  be
    17  changed as a result of this act.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15515-02-4