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Senate panel advances a slate of bridge and road naming resolutions honoring veterans
Summary
The Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted to report multiple concurrent resolutions to the full Senate recommending adoption of memorial names for bridges and roads across West Virginia honoring veterans, after presentations and technical corrections were explained to the committee.
The West Virginia Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on April 1 reported a package of concurrent resolutions to the full Senate recommending adoption of memorial names for bridges and roads across the state.
An intern, Josiah, briefed the committee on multiple resolutions that name bridges and roads for veterans, noting the individuals honored include Bronze Star recipients, prisoners of war and soldiers killed in action. "The individuals named in these resolutions picked by the chairman are among bronze star recipients, soldiers killed in action, prisoners of war, and veterans of foreign wars," Josiah said when presenting the items.
The resolutions presented to the committee at once included Senate Concurrent Resolution 5 and a set of committee substitutes for House concurrent resolutions (transcript references: 37, 44, 46, 51, 62, 85, 91, among others). Examples summarized for the panel included naming a bridge in Kanawha County the "U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Robert Milford Payne Memorial Bridge" (Senate Concurrent Resolution 5); a Wayne County bridge the "U.S. Army Captain Ray Leslie Memorial Bridge" (committee substitute for House Concurrent Resolution 37); a Hardy County bridge the "U.S. Army Corporal Charles W. Wolfe Memorial Bridge" (committee substitute for House Concurrent Resolution 44); and several other bridge namings in Preston, Mingo, Webster and Lincoln counties.
Several committee substitutes included technical corrections: correcting birth dates, adding street or creek names carried by bridges, clarifying county locations, and adding awards or military titles. For example, committee staff said the substitute for Senate Concurrent Resolution 8 corrected Sergeant Dennis Charles Hurley's birth date and added the street that carries Huff Creek to the resolution title, and another substitute corrected Specialist Fourth Class Stevens's title abbreviation and added minor technical corrections.
Committee procedure: Vice Chair Taylor asked unanimous consent to consider many of the concurrent resolutions simultaneously and then moved that the listed resolutions be "reported to the full Senate with the recommendation that they each be adopted." The committee approved the reporting motions by voice vote; the chair declared the motions adopted.
The committee record shows the resolutions were forwarded to the full Senate with recommendations for adoption; no roll-call tallies were recorded in the committee transcript and no formal objections were raised during the committee's voice votes.
Looking ahead, the resolutions proceed to the full Senate for consideration and final adoption on the Senate floor if the full body takes up the recommendations.
