Samuel B. Moody Bataan Death March Compensation Act - Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay certain compensation to individuals (or their survivors) who, as members of the armed forces during World War II: (1) were captured on the peninsula of Bataan or the island of Corregidor in the Philippines by Japanese forces; and (2) participated in and survived the Bataan Death March.
Allows a survivor payment to be made only to an unremarried former spouse of such individual.
Actions
Mar 19, 2001
Executive Comment Requested from DOD.
Mar 19, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Mar 8, 2001
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.