[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4416 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4416

 To designate the Special Guerilla Unit National Memorial at Veterans 
               Memorial Park in Middletown, Connecticut.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 23, 2024

Mr. Blumenthal introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To designate the Special Guerilla Unit National Memorial at Veterans 
               Memorial Park in Middletown, Connecticut.

    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 ``Special Guerilla Unit National 
Memorial Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) from 1961 to 1975, the Special Guerilla Unit, 
        consisting of approximately 50,000 Hmong soldiers, fought to 
        defend United States interests and contain Communist expansion 
        in Laos;
            (2) approximately 35,000 members of the Special Guerilla 
        Unit died during combat operations in Laos;
            (3) members of the Special Guerilla Unit conducted numerous 
        rescue missions to recover downed United States pilots;
            (4) thousands of veterans of the Special Guerilla Unit 
        resettled with their families in the United States; and
            (5) the veterans of the Special Guerilla Unit displayed 
        peerless heroism during their operations in Laos.

SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF THE SPECIAL GUERILLA UNIT NATIONAL MEMORIAL.

    (a) Designation.--The memorial to the members of the Special 
Guerilla Unit located at Veterans Memorial Park in Middletown, 
Connecticut, is designated as the ``Special Guerilla Unit National 
Memorial''.
    (b) Effect of Designation.--
            (1) In general.--The national memorial designated by 
        subsection (a) is not a unit of the National Park System.
            (2) Federal funds.--The designation of the national 
        memorial by subsection (a) shall not require or permit Federal 
        funds to be expended for any purpose related to the national 
        memorial designated by that subsection.
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