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Senate Bill 1390
116th Congress(2019-2020)
Creig Sharp Funeral Honors for Veterans Act
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Introduced in Senate on May 9, 2019
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S. 1390 (Introduced-in-Senate)


116th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1390


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

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.

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 “Creig Sharp Funeral Honors for Veterans Act”.

SEC. 2. 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.