HR 5131
110th Congress
House
Crime and Law Enforcement
Armed Forces and National Security
Cemeteries and funerals
Commemorations
Destruction of property
Fines (Penalties)
Monuments and memorials
Lance Corporal Jeremy Burris Act
Introduced: January 23, 2008
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 25, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Jan 23, 2008
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Jan 23, 2008
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Lance Corporal Jeremy Burris Act - Amends the federal criminal code to modify the prohibition against destruction of veterans' memorials to include destruction of the grave, headstone, or marker of any person in the Armed Forces and to extend such prohibition to memorials, graves, headstones, or markers on private as well as public property.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Committees of jurisdiction
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