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I 110th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5131 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 23, 2008 Mr. Poe introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 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.

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This Act may be cited as the Lance Corporal Jeremy Burris Act.

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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. .