[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3806 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3806

To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to add certain identifying 
information to the inscriptions on the markers on certain graves in the 
  National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific containing the remains of 
  certain unknowns who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 
                           December 7, 1941.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2000

 Mrs. Mink of Hawaii introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to add certain identifying 
information to the inscriptions on the markers on certain graves in the 
  National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific containing the remains of 
  certain unknowns who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 
                           December 7, 1941.

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

SECTION 1. ADDITION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION TO MARKERS ON GRAVES 
              CONTAINING REMAINS OF CERTAIN UNKNOWNS WHO DIED IN THE 
              JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR ON DECEMBER 7, 1941.

    (a) Requirement.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall add 
identifying information described in subsection (b) to the inscriptions 
on the markers on graves in the National Memorial Cemetery of the 
Pacific containing the remains to which that information relates.
    (b) Information To Be Added.--The information to be added pursuant 
to subsection (a) is the information authenticated by the director of 
the Navy Historical Center, Washington, D.C., as of the date of the 
enactment of this Act, relating to the circumstances of death, or that 
more particularly identifies interred remains, of certain unknown 
casualties who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 
7, 1941.
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