S. 1390Senate116th Congress (2019-2021)In Committee

Creig Sharp Funeral Honors for Veterans Act

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The Creig Sharp Funeral Honors for Veterans Act requires every U.S. military installation that can provide a funeral honors detail to keep a ready‑to‑use plan for offering full military funeral honors to veterans who request them. The bill applies to all military bases and to veterans who are eligible for such honors under existing law.

Key Provisions

Each installation’s commander must develop and follow a plan to provide full military funeral honors when a veteran requests them.
The plan must ensure the honor detail meets the composition rules set out in 10 U.S.C. §1491(b).
The plan must include the required funeral ceremony procedures from 10 U.S.C. §1491(c).
A gun salute must be provided at each funeral, using installation personnel, nearby reserve members, or qualified veterans organization members.
The plan must also cover any support services authorized under 10 U.S.C. §1491(d).
The Secretary of the military department may add any other actions needed to guarantee full honors are available on request.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Veterans' Affairs Committee

May 9, 2019

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Introduced in Senate

May 9, 2019

SenateIntro Referral

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Veterans' Affairs Committee

May 9, 2019

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Introduced in SenateIssued May 9, 2019

116th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 1390

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

May 9, 2019

Mr. Sullivan (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Duckworth, and Ms. Murkowski) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

A BILL

To require plans for military installations for full military funeral honors for veterans at such installations.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Creig Sharp Funeral Honors for Veterans Act.

Full military funeral honors for veterans at military installations

(a)

Installation plans for honors required

The commander of each military installation at or through which a funeral honors detail for a veteran is provided pursuant to section 1491 of title 10, United States Code, shall maintain and carry out a plan for the provision, upon request, of full military funeral honors at funerals of veterans for whom a funeral honors detail is authorized in that section.

(b)

Elements

Each plan of an installation under subsection (a) shall include the following:

(1)

Mechanisms to ensure compliance with the requirements applicable to the composition of funeral honors details in section 1491(b) of title 10, United States Code.

(2)

Mechanisms to ensure compliance with the requirements for ceremonies for funerals in section 1491(c) of such title.

(3)

In addition to the ceremonies required pursuant to paragraph (2), the provision of a gun salute for each funeral by appropriate personnel, including personnel of the installation, members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces residing in the vicinity of the installation who are ordered to funeral honors duty, and members of veterans organizations or other organizations referred to in section 1491(b)(2) of such title.

(4)

Mechanisms for the provision of support authorized by section 1491(d) of such title.

(5)

Such other mechanisms and activities as the Secretary concerned considers appropriate in order to assure that full military funeral honors are provided upon request at funerals of veterans.

(c)

Definitions

In this section:

(1)

The term Secretary concerned has the meaning given that term in section 101(a)(9) of title 10, United States Code.

(2)

The term veteran has the meaning given that term in section 1491(h) of title 10, United States Code.