[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1889 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1889
To amend title 10, United States Code, to recognize the dependent
children of members of the Armed Forces who are serving on active duty
or who have served on active duty through the presentation of an
official lapel button.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 8, 2013
Mr. Latta (for himself, Mr. Loebsack, Mr. Wittman, and Ms. Kaptur)
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 recognize the dependent
children of members of the Armed Forces who are serving on active duty
or who have served on active duty through the presentation of an
official lapel button.
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 ``Children of Military Service Members
Commemorative Lapel Pin Act''.
SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RECOGNITION OF DEPENDENT CHILDREN OF
MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES.
(a) Establishment and Presentation of Lapel Button.--Chapter 57 of
title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section
1126 the following new section:
``Sec. 1126a. Children of military service members commemorative lapel
button: eligibility and presentation
``(a) Design and Eligibility.--A lapel button, to be known as the
children of military service members commemorative lapel button, shall
be designed, as approved by the Secretary of Defense, to identify and
recognize an eligible child dependent of a member of the armed forces
who serves on active duty for a period of more than 30 days.
``(b) Application and Presentation.--The Secretary of Defense shall
establish an application process by which a member referred to in
subsection (a) can request a children of military service members
commemorative lapel button for the member's eligible child dependents.
Upon processing of the application and payment of the fee required by
subsection (c), the Secretary concerned shall present a children of
military service members commemorative lapel button to eligible child
dependents of a member.
``(c) Cost.--Presentation of a children of military service members
commemorative lapel button is conditioned upon the payment of an amount
sufficient to cover the cost of manufacture and distribution of the
lapel button.
``(d) Limitation on Number of Buttons.--(1) Not more than one
children of military service members commemorative lapel button may be
presented to an eligible child dependent of a member, regardless of the
number of times the member serves on active duty.
``(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), if a person is an eligible
child dependent of more than one member, the eligible child dependent
may receive a children of military service members commemorative lapel
button on behalf of each member of whom the person is a dependent.
``(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), if a children of military
service members commemorative lapel button presented under this section
has been lost, destroyed, or rendered unfit for use without fault or
neglect on the part of the eligible child dependent to whom it was
furnished, the Secretary concerned may replace the lapel button upon
application and payment of an amount sufficient to cover the cost of
manufacture and presentation.
``(e) Eligible Child Dependent Defined.--The term `eligible child
dependent' means a dependent of a member of the armed forces described
in subparagraph (D) or (I) of section 1072(2) of this title.
``(f) Regulations.--The Secretary of Defense shall issue such
regulations as may be necessary to carry out this section. The
Secretary shall ensure that the regulations are uniform for each armed
force to the extent practicable.''.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of
such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section
1126 the following new item:
``1126a. Children of military service members commemorative lapel
button: eligibility and presentation.''.
(c) Sense of Congress on Expedited Implementation.--It is the sense
of Congress that the Secretary of Defense should take appropriate
actions to expedite--
(1) the design and manufacture of the children of military
service members commemorative lapel button authorized by
section 1126a of title 10, United States Code, as added by
subsection (a); and
(2) the establishment and implementation of mechanisms to
facilitate the issuance of the children of military service
members commemorative lapel button.
(d) Retroactive Availability of Children of Military Service
Members Commemorative Lapel Button.--
(1) Availability.--The Secretary of Defense shall make the
children of military service members commemorative lapel button
authorized by section 1126a of title 10, United States Code, as
added by subsection (a), available to any person who can prove
to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the person satisfied,
at any time before the date of the enactment of this Act, the
definition contained in subsection (e) of such section 1126a of
eligible child dependent of a member of the Armed Forces who
served on active duty for a period of more than 30 days.
(2) Application process.--The Secretary of Defense shall
provide a mechanism by which a person eligible under paragraph
(1), or a person acting on behalf of the person, may apply to
the Secretary of Defense for a children of military service
members commemorative lapel button.
(3) Notification of certain members.--The Secretary of
Defense shall notify members of the Armed Forces who served on
active duty for a period of more than 30 days since September
11, 2001, of the availability of the children of military
service members commemorative lapel button under this
subsection. To the extent practicable, such notice shall be
provided not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment
of this Act.
(4) Deadline for application.--Applications for a children
of military service members commemorative lapel button under
this subsection must be submitted to the Secretary of Defense
not later than one year after the date on which the Secretary
first announces, in the Federal Register and by such other
means as the Secretary considers appropriate, the availability
of the lapel button.
(5) Costs, limitations, and exceptions.--Subsections (c)
and (d) of section 1126a of title 10, United States Code, shall
apply with respect to the presentation of a children of
military service members commemorative lapel button under this
subsection.
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