[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4973 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4973

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide criminal penalties 
   for the destruction of memorials, headstones, markers, and graves 
 commemorating persons serving in the Armed Forces on private property.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2008

    Mr. Poe (for himself and Mr. Burton of Indiana) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide criminal penalties 
   for the destruction of memorials, headstones, markers, and graves 
 commemorating persons serving in the Armed Forces on private property.

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

SECTION 1. CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF MEMORIALS, 
              HEADSTONES, MARKERS, AND GRAVES COMMEMORATING PERSONS 
              SERVING IN THE ARMED FORCES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.

    Section 1369 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the heading by inserting ``, headstones, and 
        graves'' after ``memorials'';
            (2) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``on public property'';
                    (B) by striking ``armed forces'' and inserting 
                ``Armed Forces''; and
                    (C) by inserting ``, or any grave or headstone or 
                marker marking the grave of any such person,'' after 
                ``United States'';
            (3) in subsection (b)(2) by inserting ``grave, headstone, 
        marker,'' after ``statue,''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) For the purposes of this section, the term `grave' includes 
any object placed on such grave to commemorate the veteran or member of 
the Armed Forces of the United States buried in such grave.''.
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