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- Referred to transportation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1769
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to transportation
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to transportation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1505
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- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to transportation
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Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Charles M. Stern Jr. Memorial Bridge"
In Assembly Committee · Transportation · Sponsor John T. McDonald III
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S5667
Title of bill
An act to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of the state highway system as the "Charles M. Stern Jr. Memorial Bridge"
Purpose
Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "Charles M. Stern, Jr. Memorial Bridge."
Summary of provisions
Section one of the bill amends the highway law by adding a new section 344-d that designates the bridge across the Hudson River on Interstate Route 90 in the city of Albany, in the county of Albany, as the "Charles M. Stern, Jr. Memorial Bridge."
Section two states the commissioner of transportation shall provide for the installation of appropriate signage and that the designation pursuant to section one of this act shall be of a ceremonial nature.
Section three contains the effective date.
Justification
Charles M. Stern, Jr. was the first Albany resident to lose his life in World War II. Charles M. Stern, Jr., was born on 10 March 1915, the son of Charles M. & Emma J. Ster. He enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve on 1 August 1940. He was assigned to active duty on 22 November 1940 and appointed ensign on 28 February 1941. Ensign Stern was ordered aboard the battleship Oklahoma BB37 on 9 April 1941 and was killed when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December of that year. Ensign Stern was buried in a mass grave in the National Cemetery of the Pacific, Hawaii.
We have correctly honored Parker F. Dunn, the first resident of Albany to be killed in World War I, by renaming the Dunn Memorial Bridge, so it seems fitting and appropriate to honor Charles. M. Stern, Jr. by naming the Patroon Island Bridge after him, especially when considering he was unable to be buried in his native city of Albany, New York.
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Effective date
This act shall take effect.
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