Bill Text: NY S07588 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Designates a portion of the state highway system as the "NYPD Detective Brian P. Simonsen Memorial Bridge" located in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-06 - PRINT NUMBER 7588A [S07588 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07588-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7588--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 28, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  PALUMBO,  MARTINEZ,  MURRAY, RHOADS, WEIK -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee  on  Rules -- 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  commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to designating a portion of
          the  state  highway  system  as  the "NYPD Detective Brian P. Simonsen
          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 344-p to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  344-p.  Portion of the state highway system to be designated as the
     4  "NYPD Detective Brian P. Simonsen Memorial Bridge". All that portion  of
     5  the  state highway system constituting the Halsey Manor Road overpass at
     6  the Long Island Expressway in the town of Brookhaven, county of Suffolk,
     7  shall be designated and known as the "NYPD Detective Brian  P.  Simonsen
     8  Memorial Bridge".
     9    §  2. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
    10  lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state  highway  system
    11  as  designated  pursuant  to  section one of this act. However, to avoid
    12  confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce,  the  desig-
    13  nation  called  for  pursuant to section one of this act shall be one of
    14  ceremonial nature and the official name of  such  bridge  shall  not  be
    15  changed as a result of this act.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11162-03-4