Senate Bill 0876e1

    SB 876                                         First Engrossed



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to building designations;

  3         designating the State Veterans' Nursing Home in

  4         Pembroke Pines as the Alexander "Sandy"

  5         Nininger, Jr. State Veterans' Nursing Home;

  6         directing the Department of Veterans' Affairs

  7         to erect suitable markers; designating the

  8         Florida Records Storage Center of the

  9         Department of State as the Jim Smith Building;

10         directing the Department of State to erect

11         suitable markers; providing an effective date.

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13         WHEREAS, Alexander "Sandy" Nininger, Jr., a graduate of

14  Ft. Lauderdale High School and the United States Military

15  Academy, served as a First Lieutenant in the United States

16  Army, and

17         WHEREAS, Alexander "Sandy" Nininger, Jr., was serving

18  with Company K, 57th Infantry, Philippine Scouts, when he

19  engaged enemy forces near Abucay, Bataan, Philippine Islands

20  on January 12, 1942, and

21         WHEREAS, Alexander "Sandy" Nininger, Jr., repeatedly

22  forced his way into hostile positions and engaged in

23  hand-to-hand combat with an enemy force having superior

24  firepower, and

25         WHEREAS, Alexander "Sandy" Nininger, Jr., despite being

26  wounded three times, continued his attacks, pushing alone far

27  behind enemy lines, and

28         WHEREAS, Alexander "Sandy" Nininger, Jr.'s bravery and

29  heroic actions resulted in his death at the hands of the

30  enemy, and

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    SB 876                                         First Engrossed



  1         WHEREAS, Alexander "Sandy" Nininger, Jr., was awarded

  2  the Congressional Medal of Honor on February 10, 1942, for

  3  exceptional courage, fortitude, and devotion to duty, NOW,

  4  THEREFORE,

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  6  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  8         Section 1.  The State Veterans' Home in Pembroke Pines

  9  is designated the Alexander "Sandy" Nininger, Jr., State

10  Veterans' Nursing Home.

11         Section 2.  The Department of Veterans' Affairs is

12  directed to erect suitable markers bearing the designation

13  made by this act.

14         Section 3.  (1)  The building currently housing the

15  Florida Records Storage Center of the Department of State,

16  located at 4319 Shelfer Road in Tallahassee, is designated the

17  "Jim Smith Building" in honor of former Secretary of State Jim

18  Smith who served as Florida's 21st Secretary of State from

19  August 5, 1987, to January 3, 1995.

20         (2)  The Department of State shall erect suitable

21  markers bearing the designation made by this section.

22         Section 4.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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