[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 87 (Monday, July 6, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S7359]
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      By Mr. HATCH:
  S. 2264. A bill to revise, codify, and enact without substantive 
change certain general and permanent laws, related to patriotic and 
national observances, ceremonies, and organizations, as title 36, 
United States Code, ``Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, 
and Organizations''; to the Committee on the Judiciary.


   PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS 
                            CODIFICATION ACT

 Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I am pleased to introduce today the 
Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations 
Codification Act.
  This legislation will codify as title 36, United States Code, certain 
general and permanent laws related to various Federally chartered 
patriotic and national observances, ceremonies, and organizations. 
Without making substantive changes, this bill restates existing law to 
remove ambiguities and inconsistencies and repeals obsolete, 
unnecessary, and superseded provisions.
  Some of the important organizations whose charters will be codified 
with this legislation include, among other: The American Legion, The 
American Society of International Law, Army and Navy Union of the 
United States of America, Boy Scouts of America, Boys & Girls Clubs of 
America, Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of 
America, Girl Scouts of the United States of America, Jewish War 
Veterans of the United States of America, Incorporated, Little League 
Baseball, Incorporated, National Academy of Sciences, National Fund for 
Medical Education, United States Olympic Committee, The American 
National Red Cross.
  The bill was drafted by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel under 
the Office's statutory mandate to prepare and submit periodically to 
the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, one 
title at a time, a restatement and revision of the general and 
permanent laws of the United States for enactment into positive law (2 
U.S.C. 285b).

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