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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5288
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Rasmussen, Thorsness, Patterson, McMullen, Oke and Skratek).
Read first time March 6, 1991.
AN ACT Relating to renaming state route number 90 the American Veterans Memorial Highway; amending RCW 47.17.140; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. In order to create a great memorial and tribute to American veterans, it is proposed that the Washington state portion of Interstate 90 be renamed in their honor, to become the westernmost portion of a memorial highway reaching across the United States.
Sec. 2. RCW 47.17.140 and 1971 ex.s. c 73 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
A state highway to be known as state route number 90 and designated as the American Veterans Memorial Highway is established as follows:
Beginning at a junction with state route number 5, thence, via the west approach to the Lake Washington bridge in Seattle, in an easterly direction by way of Mercer Island, North Bend, Snoqualmie pass, Ellensburg, Vantage, Moses Lake, Ritzville, Sprague and Spokane to the Washington-Idaho boundary line.