HB 2528 — An Act designating a bridge, identified as Bridge Key 8514, carrying Pennsylvania Route 271 over North Branch Blacklick Creek in Barr Township, Cambria County, as the Brown Brothers Memorial Bridge.

PRINTER'S NO.   3427

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 2528
                                                Session of
                                                  2026

     INTRODUCED BY KEPHART, BRENNAN, STAATS, GREINER, JAMES, STENDER,
        SMITH, ROWE, ANDERSON AND KAUFFMAN, MAY 21, 2026

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 21, 2026


                                     AN ACT
 1   Designating a bridge, identified as Bridge Key 8514, carrying
 2      Pennsylvania Route 271 over North Branch Blacklick Creek in
 3      Barr Township, Cambria County, as the Brown Brothers Memorial
 4      Bridge.
 5      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 6   hereby enacts as follows:
 7   Section 1.     Brown Brothers Memorial Bridge.
 8      (a)   Findings and declarations.--The General Assembly finds
 9   and declares as follows:
10            (1)   The Brown brothers, Stewart, Homer, Grant, Dell and
11      Everett, grew up in Nicktown, Pennsylvania, and all attended
12      the Griffith School in Nicktown.
13            (2)   Stewart Brown was born in 1906 and operated a garage
14      in Nicktown. He later lived in Michigan and had one child. He
15      enlisted in the Army in 1943, served as an Army Technical
16      Sergeant and passed away in 1961.
17            (3)   Homer Brown was born in 1913 and worked as a
18      mechanic. He lived near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had two
19      children. He entered the Army in 1943, served as an Army
 1      Artillery Sergeant in Italy and passed away in 1960.
 2            (4)   Grant Brown was born in 1914 and worked on a family
 3      farm and as a mechanic. He lived in Ohio and was married
 4      twice. He entered the Army in 1942, served as an Army
 5      Sergeant in France and passed away in 1967.
 6            (5)   Dell Brown was born in 1917 and worked as a
 7      lumberman, in shaft and slope mining and for Bell Telephone.
 8      He lived in Nicktown, married and had six children. He
 9      entered the Army in 1942, served as an Army Technical
10      Sergeant in the Medical Corps in Italy, Sicily and North
11      Africa and passed away in 1987.
12            (6)   Everett Brown was born in 1918 and worked as a
13      machinist for the Pennsylvania Railroad. He lived near
14      Pittsburgh, married and had four children. He entered the
15      Army in 1943, served as an Army Air Force Sergeant in England
16      and passed away in 1970.
17            (7)   Collectively, the five Brown brothers served in the
18      United States Army during World War II across multiple
19      theaters, including Italy, France, England, Sicily and North
20      Africa.
21      (b)   Designation.--The bridge, identified as Bridge Key 8514,
22   carrying Pennsylvania Route 271 over North Branch Blacklick
23   Creek in Barr Township, Cambria County, is designated as the
24   Brown Brothers Memorial Bridge.
25      (c)   Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
26   maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to
27   traffic in both directions on the bridge.
28   Section 2.     Effective date.
29      This act shall take effect in 60 days.



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