[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 918 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 918

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the interment of 
 military working dogs in any open national cemetery under the control 
    of the National Cemetery Administration, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 9, 2023

Mr. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the interment of 
 military working dogs in any open national cemetery under the control 
    of the National Cemetery Administration, 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 ``Sgt. Fieldy Act''.

SEC. 2. INTERMENT OF MILITARY WORKING DOGS IN NATIONAL CEMETERIES.

    (a) Interment of Military Working Dogs.--Section 2402 of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(c)(1) In addition to the persons specified in subsection (a), 
under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, the remains of 
any covered dog may be interred in any open national cemetery under the 
control of the National Cemetery Administration.
    ``(2) In this subsection, the term `covered dog' means a deceased 
dog that, at any time before death, was a military working dog, as 
described in section 2583(i) of title 10.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to deaths occurring on or after the day that is one 
year before the date of the enactment of this Act.
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