A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the State sentences for which burial in National Cemeteries and Arlington National Cemetery are prohibited to include any sentence of life imprisonment for a State capital crime.
Latest action · Sep 22, 2005 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Progress
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- IntroducedSep 22, 2005
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Expands the prohibition against interment or memorialization in the National Cemetery System for persons convicted of a State capital crime for which the person was sentenced to life imprisonment to include any sentence of life imprisonment. (Currently, the prohibition applies only to a sentence of life imprisonment without parole).
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 22, 2005Introduced in Senate
- Sep 22, 2005Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- Sep 22, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10380-10381)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 22, 2005Introduced in Senate
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