Bring Our Heroes Home Act
Latest action · Nov 6, 2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedNov 6, 2019
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Bring Our Heroes Home Act
This bill establishes at the National Archives a collection of records that relate to the fate or status of missing Armed Forces personnel.
Each government office must identify and locate such records in its possession and transmit them to the Archives.
The bill establishes a temporary board to ensure and facilitate the review, transmission, and public disclosure of such records.
The bill generally makes such records public, with specified exceptions.
Cosponsors 13
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 6, 2019 to Mar 2, 2020, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NH | Jeanne Shaheen | Original | Nov 6, 2019 |
| R-ID | James E. Risch | Nov 12, 2019 | |
| D-NY | Kirsten E. Gillibrand | Nov 18, 2019 | |
| R-WV | Shelley Moore Capito | Nov 18, 2019 | |
| D-MT | Jon Tester | Nov 19, 2019 | |
| D-CT | Richard Blumenthal | Nov 19, 2019 | |
| R-TN | Marsha Blackburn | Dec 2, 2019 | |
| D-IL | Tammy Duckworth | Dec 2, 2019 | |
| R-FL | Rick Scott | Dec 3, 2019 | |
| D-MA | Elizabeth Warren | Dec 9, 2019 | |
| R-SD | Mike Rounds | Dec 10, 2019 | |
| D-NH | Margaret Wood Hassan | Jan 3, 2020 | |
| R-SD | John Thune | Mar 2, 2020 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 6, 2019Introduced in Senate
- Nov 6, 2019Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 5646 | Bring Our Heroes Home Act | Identical bill | Jan 16, 2020 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
- Advisory bodies
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Asia
- China
- Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Libraries and archives
- Military personnel and dependents
- Missing persons
- National Archives and Records Administration
- North Korea
- Personnel records
- Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
- Russia
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 6, 2019Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.
