Bill Text: PA SB559 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Providing for the designation of the building referred to as the Commonwealth Keystone Building in the City of Harrisburg as the Thomas D. Larson Building.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-17 - Referred to STATE GOVERNMENT [SB559 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB559-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  569

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

559

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY CORMAN, RAFFERTY, TOMLINSON, ROBBINS, EARLL, ALLOWAY, YAW, ORIE AND WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 17, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 17, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Providing for the designation of the building referred to as the

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Commonwealth Keystone Building in the City of Harrisburg as

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the Thomas D. Larson Building.

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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.  Thomas D. Larson Building.

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(a)  Declaration of policy.--The General Assembly finds and

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declares as follows:

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(1)  Thomas D. Larson served as Secretary of

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Transportation from 1979 to 1987 during Governor Richard

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Thornburgh's administration.

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(2)  Larson is recognized as the individual who was

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instrumental in reforming the Department of Transportation

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and making it a national model of professionalism and

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innovation.

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(3)  After completing his service as secretary, Larson

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was sworn in as Federal Highway Administrator on August 10,

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1989, and served until 1993.

 


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(4)  During his tenure as Federal Highway Administrator,

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he played an important role in the crafting of the Intermodal

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Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) (Public

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Law 102-240, 105 Stat. 1914).

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(5)  Before and after his public service to the

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Commonwealth and the United States, Larson also distinguished

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himself as a professor of civil and environmental engineering

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at The Pennsylvania State University, College of Engineering,

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and in preparing the next generation of transportation

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professionals.

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(6)  Pennsylvania lost a dedicated public servant,

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teacher and community leader on July 20, 2006.

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(b)  Designation.--The building referred to as the

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Commonwealth Keystone Building in the City of Harrisburg is

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designated as, and shall be known as, the Thomas D. Larson

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Building.

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(c)  Signs.--The Department of General Services shall erect

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and maintain appropriate signs to indicate the designation under

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subsection (b).

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Section 2.  Repeal.

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All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar as they are

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inconsistent with this act.

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Section 3.  Effective date.

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This act shall take effect immediately.

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