[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 200 (Wednesday, December 19, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S7897]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    FULL MILITARY HONORS ACT OF 2018

  Mr. CORNYN. I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Veterans' 
Affairs be discharged from further consideration of S. 3523 and the 
Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 3523) to amend title 10, United States Code, to 
     require a full military honors ceremony for certain deceased 
     veterans, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. CORNYN. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read 
a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered 
made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 3523) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 3523

       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 ``Full Military Honors Act of 
     2018''.

     SEC. 2. FULL MILITARY HONORS CEREMONY FOR CERTAIN VETERANS.

       Section 1491(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     by adding at the end the following:
       ``(3) The Secretary concerned shall provide full military 
     honors (as determined by the Secretary concerned) for the 
     funeral of a veteran who--
       ``(A) is first interred or first inurned in Arlington 
     National Cemetery on or after the date of the enactment of 
     the Full Military Honors Act of 2018;
       ``(B) was awarded the medal of honor or the prisoner-of-war 
     medal; and
       ``(C) is not entitled to full military honors by the grade 
     of that veteran.''.

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