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Requiring the installation of signs and statues on certain portions of interstate 80 to commemorate Harold Keller
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 28, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 28, 2020
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Iowa Department of Transportation would create and look after signs and bronze statues near the Brooklyn interstate exit ramps. These memorials would honor Harold Keller and the six Marines who raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi during World War II. The statues would also be lit up every night from sunset to sunrise.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires the department of transportation (DOT) to design, purchase, install, and maintain signs on or adjacent to interstate near the exit ramps to Brooklyn, Iowa, in honor of Harold Keller, an Iowa native and one of the six United States marines who rose the United States flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. The DOT is also required to design, purchase, install, and maintain statues on or adjacent to interstate near the exit ramps to Brooklyn, Iowa, in honor of Harold Keller, which are to be made of bronze and display the six United States marines raising the United States flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. The DOT is required to cause the statues to be illuminated from sunset to sunrise.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 28, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.
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