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S. 533 108th Congress Senate

Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act

Official title: A bill to provide for a medal of appropriate design to be awarded by the President to the next of kin or other representative of those individuals killed as a … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to provide for a medal of appropriate design to be awarded by the President to the next of kin or other representative of those individuals killed as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Introduced: March 5, 2003 Introduced by: Charles E. Schumer Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
Commemorations Awards, medals, prizesCrime and Law EnforcementEBB TerrorismInternational Affairs
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September 11, 2001TerrorismVictims of terrorism
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Mar 5, 2003
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 Latest action March 5, 2003

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act - Authorizes the President to present to the personal representative or next of kin of each individual who died on or after September 11, 2001, as a direct result of the act of terrorism within the United States on that date, a Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Congressional Medal in recognition of their sacrifice and to honor their deaths.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike: (1) three medals to honor victims of the attack at the World Trade Center (WTC), victims aboard United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania, and victims at the Pentagon; and (2) duplicate medals for presentation to each precinct house, firehouse, emergency response station, or other duty station or place of employment to which officers, emergency workers, and other employees of the U.S. Government and of State and local government agencies (including the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) and others who responded to and perished as a direct result of the WTC attacks were assigned on September 11, 2001.

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Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · Apr 19, 2004
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 533: Fallen Heroes of 9/11 Act. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-S-533/
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