[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1751 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1751

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the State sentences 
for which burial in National Cemeteries and Arlington National Cemetery 
are prohibited to include any sentence of life imprisonment for a State 
                             capital crime.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 22, 2005

 Ms. Mikulski introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the State sentences 
for which burial in National Cemeteries and Arlington National Cemetery 
are prohibited to include any sentence of life imprisonment for a State 
                             capital crime.

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

SECTION 1. EXPANSION OF STATE SENTENCES FOR WHICH BURIAL IN NATIONAL 
              CEMETERIES AND ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY ARE 
              PROHIBITED.

    (a) State Sentences To Include Any Sentence of Life Imprisonment 
for State Capital Crime.--Subsection (b)(2) of section 2411 of title 
38, United States Code, is amended by striking ``without parole''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Subsection (d)(2) of such section is 
amended by striking ``without parole''.
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