Bill Summary
The Creig Sharp Funeral Honors for Veterans Act requires all military installations to have a plan in place for providing full military funeral honors for eligible veterans upon request. This includes ensuring the proper composition of funeral honors details, following the required ceremonies, and providing a gun salute. The Secretary of each branch of the military is responsible for implementing this act and may include additional mechanisms to ensure full honors are provided. The act defines "Secretary concerned" as the head of each branch of the military and defines "veteran" as an eligible individual under section 1491 of title 10 of the United States Code.
Possible Impacts
1. The Creig Sharp Funeral Honors for Veterans Act requires that all military installations have a plan in place for providing full military funeral honors for veterans. This could affect people by ensuring that all veterans receive proper and respectful honors at their funerals, providing closure for their families and loved ones.
2. The Act also requires that these plans include mechanisms to ensure compliance with requirements for the composition and ceremonies of funeral honors details. This could affect people by ensuring that the ceremonies are carried out with precision and respect, honoring the service and sacrifice of the veteran.
3. The Act also allows for support to be provided by the installation for funeral honors, including personnel and resources. This could affect people by providing job opportunities for military personnel and support for veterans and their families during a difficult time.
[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1390 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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116th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1390
To require plans for military installations for full military funeral
honors for veterans at such installations.
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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
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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.
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