[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1295 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1295

 To amend the Peace Corps Act to allow former volunteers and officers 
and employees 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

                             March 1, 2017

Mr. Sires (for himself and Mr. Young of Iowa) 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 and officers 
and employees 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 as an officer or employee 
        of the Peace Corps 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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