SR439: SR439 Senator Sheila McNeill Memorial Highway; Camden County; dedicate

This resolution from the Georgia General Assembly honors the life of the Honorable Sheila M. McNeill, who served as a Georgia state senator representing Senate District 3 from 2021 to 2023 and spent 58 years working with the Navy League, a civilian organization that supports the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine. The resolution dedicates the portion of State Route 40 between the Charlie Smith Senior Highway/State Route 40 Spur and Church Street in Camden County as the Senator Sheila McNeill Memorial Highway. It directs the Georgia Department of Transportation to put up and maintain signs marking the dedication, and it directs the Secretary of the Senate to send copies of the resolution to McNeill's family and to the Department of Transportation.

• Dedicates the stretch of State Route 40 between the Charlie Smith Senior Highway/State Route 40 Spur and Church Street in Camden County as the Senator Sheila McNeill Memorial Highway.
• Directs the Georgia Department of Transportation to erect and maintain signs marking the highway dedication.
• Directs the Secretary of the Senate to distribute copies of the resolution to McNeill's family and to the Department of Transportation.
• Formally honors McNeill's service as a Georgia state senator and her decades of work with the Navy League.

This mainly affects the Georgia Department of Transportation, which must install and maintain signage, and residents and travelers in Camden County who use this section of State Route 40. It also formally recognizes the family of the late Senator Sheila M. McNeill.

The resolution does not change any laws or funding beyond directing road signage, but it gives a lasting public marker of a former state senator's service in Camden County, affecting how the Department of Transportation labels this stretch of State Route 40.

• The resolution recounts McNeill's 58 years with the Navy League and her time as a Georgia state senator for Senate District 3 from 2021 to 2023.
• It dedicates the named portion of State Route 40 in Camden County as the Senator Sheila McNeill Memorial Highway.
• It directs the Department of Transportation to erect and maintain signs reflecting the dedication.
• It directs the Secretary of the Senate to distribute copies of the resolution to McNeill's family and the Department of Transportation.

1. 2025-03-21Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
2. 2025-03-20Senate Hopper (Senate)

• Mike Hodges (R, SD-003)Primary sponsor

• highway dedication
• Camden County
• Georgia Senate history
• road naming