[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 917 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 917

 To amend section 6105 of title 38, United States Code, to expand the 
    range of criminal offenses resulting in forfeiture of veterans 
                               benefits.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 17, 1997

 Mr. Torricelli (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, and Mr. Byrd) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                          on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 6105 of title 38, United States Code, to expand the 
    range of criminal offenses resulting in forfeiture of veterans 
                               benefits.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Cemetery Sanctity Act''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES RESULTING IN FORFEITURE OF 
              VETERANS BENEFITS.

    (a) In General.--Section 6105 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) by inserting ``32, 37, 81, 175,'' 
                        before ``792,''; and
                            (ii) by inserting ``831, 842(m), 842(n), 
                        844(e), 844(f), 844(i), 930(c), 956, 1114, 
                        1116, 1203, 1361, 1363, 1366, 1751, 1992, 2152, 
                        2280, 2281, 2332, 2332a, 2332b, 2332c, 2339A, 
                        2339B, 2340A,'' after ``798,'';
                    (B) in paragraph (3)--
                            (i) by striking out ``and 226'' and 
                        inserting in lieu thereof ``226, and 236'';
                            (ii) by striking out ``and 2276'' and 
                        inserting in lieu thereof ``2276, and 2284''; 
                        and
                            (iii) by striking out ``and'' at the end;
                    (C) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph 
                (5); and
                    (D) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following 
                new paragraph (4):
            ``(4) sections 46502 and 60123(b) of title 49; and''; and
            (2) in the second sentence of subsection (c), by striking 
        out ``or (4)'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``(4), or (5)''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--(1) The section heading for such 
section is amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 6105. Forfeiture: subversive activities; terrorist activities; 
              other criminal activities''.
    (2) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 61 of that 
title is amended by striking out the item relating to section 6105 and 
inserting in lieu thereof the following new item:

``6105. Forfeiture: subversive activities; terrorist activities; other 
                            criminal activities.''.
    (c) Applicability.--The amendments made to section 6105 of title 
38, United States Code, by subsection (a) shall apply to any person 
convicted under a provision of law added to such section by such 
amendments after December 31, 1996.
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