STATE OF NEW YORK
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6008--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 4, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. BASKIN, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --
recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with
Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to establishing the "Fallen
Skywalkers Memorial Bridge"
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 343-ddd
2 to read as follows:
3 § 343-ddd. Portion of the state highway system to be designated and
4 known as the "Fallen Skywalkers Memorial Bridge". All that portion of
5 the state highway system constituting the bridge beginning at the south
6 terminus road elevation, north of the outer harbor drive exit and spans
7 the Buffalo waterfront until intersecting at the north end with Church
8 street and turns into Delaware avenue in the city of Buffalo in Erie
9 County, shall be designated and known as the "Fallen Skywalkers Memorial
10 Bridge".
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; provided that, to
14 avoid any confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce,
15 the designation called for pursuant to section one of this act shall be
16 one of ceremonial nature and the official name of such bridge shall not
17 be 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.
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