[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 267 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 267

  To amend the Peace Corps Act to allow former volunteers to use the 
 seal, emblem, or name of Peace Corps on death announcements and grave 
                                stones.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2015

  Mr. Sires introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Peace Corps Act to allow former volunteers to use the 
 seal, emblem, or name of Peace Corps on death announcements and grave 
                                stones.

    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 ``Respect for Peace Corps Volunteers 
Act''.

SEC. 2. USE OF OFFICIAL SEAL, EMBLEM, AND NAME OF THE PEACE CORPS.

    Subsection (b) of section 19 of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 
2518) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting before the period at the 
        end the following: ``, except that the official seal or emblem 
        and the name `Peace Corps' may be used on any death 
        announcement, gravestone, plaque, or other grave marker of any 
        person who served as a volunteer or applicant for enrollment as 
        a volunteer under such rules as may be prescribed by the 
        Director''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), in the first sentence, by inserting 
        ``or in accordance with the exception specified in paragraph 
        (1),'' before ``shall be fined''.
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