H.R. 430 – Reading Mode

111th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 430

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 9, 2009

Mr. Poe of Texas (for himself, Mr. Brown of South Carolina, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Hall of Texas, Mr. Edwards of Texas, Mr. McCotter, Mr. Sensenbrenner, Mr. McHenry, Mr. LoBiondo, Ms. Fallin, Mr. Carter, Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin, Mr. Jones, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. Putnam, Mr. Marchant, Mr. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Pitts, Mrs. Miller of Michigan, and Mr. Gallegly) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide criminal penalties for the destruction of memorials, headstones, markers, and graves commemorating persons serving in the Armed Forces on private property.

Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Lance Corporal Jeremy Burris Act.

Criminal penalties for the destruction of memorials, headstones, markers, and graves commemorating persons serving in the Armed Forces on private property

Section 1369 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—

(1)

in the heading by inserting , headstones, and graves after memorials;

(2)

in subsection (a)—

(A)

by striking willfully and inserting knowingly;

(B)

by striking on public property;

(C)

by striking armed forces and inserting Armed Forces; and

(D)

by inserting , or any grave or headstone or marker marking the grave of any such person, after United States;

(3)

in subsection (b)(2) by inserting grave, headstone, marker, after statue,; and

(4)

by adding at the end the following new subsection:

(c)

For the purposes of this section, the term grave includes any object placed on such grave to commemorate the veteran or member of the Armed Forces of the United States buried in such grave.