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    <item congress="118" measure-type="s" measure-number="3126" measure-id="id118s3126" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2023-10-25" update-date="2024-12-23">
        <title>Mark Our Place Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id118s3126v49" currentChamber="BOTH" update-date="2024-12-23">
            <action-date>2024-11-25</action-date>
            <action-desc>Public Law</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Mark Our Place Act</strong></p><p>This act authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to furnish a headstone, marker, or medallion signifying the status of a deceased member of the Armed Forces&nbsp;as a Medal of Honor recipient regardless of when the member served. Under current law, only Medal of Honor recipients who served after 1917 are eligible for such markers.</p>]]></summary-text>
        </summary>
        <summary summary-id="id118s3126v55" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2024-11-13">
            <action-date>2024-05-01</action-date>
            <action-desc>Passed Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Mark Our Place Act</strong></p><p>This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to furnish a headstone, marker, or medallion signifying the status of a deceased member of the Armed Forces as a Medal of Honor recipient regardless of when the member served. Under current law, only Medal of Honor recipients who served after 1917 are eligible for such markers.</p>]]></summary-text>
        </summary>
        <summary summary-id="id118s3126v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2024-11-13">
            <action-date>2023-10-25</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Mark Our Place Act</strong></p><p>This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to furnish a headstone, marker, or medallion signifying the status of a deceased member of the Armed Forces as a Medal of Honor recipient regardless of when the member served. Under current law, only Medal of Honor recipients who served after 1917 are eligible for such markers.</p>]]></summary-text>
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        <dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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