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To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide criminal penalties for the destruction of memorials, headstones, markers, and graves commemorating persons serving in the Armed Forces on private property.

1/23/2008--Introduced.

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.

Latest Actions
  • 02/25/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
  • 01/23/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Bill Text
File name Last Updated
H.R.5131 Introduced in House01/24/2008