[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6308 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6308

   To authorize the Secretary of a military department to correct a 
  military record at the request of an interested party more than 175 
 years after the date of the creation of the military record, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 3, 2018

  Mr. Tonko introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To authorize the Secretary of a military department to correct a 
  military record at the request of an interested party more than 175 
 years after the date of the creation of the military record, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``Historical Record Exemption Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. CORRECTION OF HISTORICAL MILITARY RECORDS.

    Section 1552(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``No'' and inserting ``(1) Subject to 
        paragraph (2), no''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2) A correction may be made under subsection (a)(1) if the 
Secretary concerned or a person the Secretary concerned determines has 
a vested interest in the military record files a request for the 
correction more than 175 years after the date of the creation of the 
military record.''.
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