HR 1172
110th Congress
House
Armed Forces and National Security
Commemorations
Congressional reporting requirements
District of Columbia
Governmental investigations
History
Military history
Monuments and memorials
Vietnam veterans
Vietnamese Conflict
War casualties
Fairness to All Vietnam Veterans Act
Introduced: February 16, 2007
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 14, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Feb 16, 2007
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Feb 16, 2007
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Fairness to All Vietnam Veterans Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to study and report to Congress: (1) to identify veterans who died after October 31, 1955, as a result of military operations in southeast Asia whose names are not eligible for inscription on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; and (2) on the feasibility and equitability of revising the eligibility requirements to be more inclusive of such veterans or of creating an alternative means for recognizing them, including alternatives involving an education center at the Memorial.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Committees of jurisdiction
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