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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6361

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Senators Rasmussen, Patterson and Conner

Read first time 1/12/90 and referred to Committee on  Transportation.

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.  Section 29, chapter 51, Laws of 1970 ex. sess. as amended by section 2, chapter 73, Laws of 1971 ex. sess. and RCW 47.17.140 are each amended to read as follows:

          A state highway to be known as ((state route number 90)) 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.