[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4980 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4980

           To prohibit the use of funds for certain parades.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 8, 2018

  Mr. Veasey (for himself, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Plaskett, Ms. Lee, Ms. 
 Jackson Lee, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Norton, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, 
  Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Polis, Mr. Brown of Maryland, Mr. McGovern, Mr. 
 Sires, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Raskin, 
 and Mr. Gene Green of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the 
   Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
           To prohibit the use of funds for certain parades.

    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 ``Preventing Allocation of Resources 
for Absurd Defense Expenditures Act'' or the ``PARADE Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR CERTAIN PARADES.

    (a) In General.--None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available for the Department of Defense or for the White House or the 
Executive Office of the President may be used for a covered parade.
    (b) Covered Parade.--In this section, the term ``covered parade'' 
means a parade that--
            (1) is sponsored by the Department of Defense or by the 
        White House or the Executive Office of the President; and
            (2) is not a parade that has been held to commemorate a 
        holiday or special event during the ten-year period preceding 
        the date of the enactment of this Act.
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