[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2856 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2856

    To amend title 10, United States Code, to require that military 
   decorations, ribbons, badges, medals, insignia, and other uniform 
   accouterments used by the Armed Forces be produced in the United 
                                States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 2009

Ms. Fallin (for herself, Mr. Turner, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. Boren, Mr. 
McCotter, Mr. Bartlett, Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. 
Cole, Mr. Skelton, Mr. McKeon, Mr. Kline of Minnesota, Mr. Fleming, and 
 Mr. Hunter) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 10, United States Code, to require that military 
   decorations, ribbons, badges, medals, insignia, and other uniform 
   accouterments used by the Armed Forces be produced in the United 
                                States.

    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 ``U.S. Military Medals and Insignia 
Pride and Patriotism Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO BUY MILITARY DECORATIONS, RIBBONS, BADGES, 
              MEDALS, INSIGNIA, AND OTHER UNIFORM ACCOUTERMENTS 
              PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES.

    (a) Requirement.--Subchapter III of chapter 147 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
``Sec. 2495c. Requirement to buy military decorations and other uniform 
              accouterments from American sources; exceptions
    ``(a) Buy-American Requirement.--A military exchange store or other 
nonappropriated fund instrumentality of the Department of Defense may 
not purchase for resale any military decorations, ribbons, badges, 
medals, insignia, and other uniform accouterments that are not produced 
in the United States. Competitive procedures shall be used in selecting 
the United States producer of the decorations.
    ``(b) Heraldic Quality Control.--No certificate of authority 
(contained in part 507 of title 32, Code of Federal Regulations) for 
the manufacture and sale of any item reference in subsection (a) by the 
Institute of Heraldry, the Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility, 
or the Marine Corps Combat Equipment and Support Systems for quality 
control and specifications purposes shall be permitted unless these 
items are from domestic material manufactured in the United States.
    ``(c) Exception.--Subsections (a) and (b) do not apply to the 
extent that the Secretary of Defense determines that a satisfactory 
quality and sufficient quantity of an item covered by subsection (a) 
and produced in the United States cannot be procured.
    ``(d) United States Defined.--In this section, the term `United 
States' includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the United 
States Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, American Samoa, and any other territory or possession of the 
United States.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
such subchapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``2495c. Requirement to buy military decorations and other uniform 
                            accouterments from American sources; 
                            exceptions.''.
    (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 2533a(b)(1) of such title is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(F) military decorations, ribbons, badges, 
                medals, insignia, and other uniform accouterments.''.
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