To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the award of the Purple Heart to civilian employees of the Department of Defense who are killed or wounded by a terrorist attack.

Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to award the Purple Heart to civilian employees of the Department of Defense who are killed or wounded as a result of a terrorist attack on or after September 10, 2001.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2886 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2886

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the award of the 
Purple Heart to civilian employees of the Department of Defense who are 
                killed or wounded by a terrorist attack.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 13, 2001

Mr. Frost (for himself, Mr. Skelton, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Moran of Virginia, 
and Mr. Wynn) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the award of the 
Purple Heart to civilian employees of the Department of Defense who are 
                killed or wounded by a terrorist attack.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AUTHORITY FOR AWARD OF THE PURPLE HEART TO CIVILIAN 
              EMPLOYEES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE WHO ARE KILLED OR 
              WOUNDED BY A TERRORIST ATTACK.

    (a) Authority.--Section 1131 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting ``or a civilian officer or employee of the 
        Department of Defense'' after ``member of the armed forces''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``In 
        the case of a civilian officer or employee of the Department of 
        Defense, such decoration may be awarded only in the case of a 
        person who is killed or wounded as a result of a terrorist 
        attack.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendments.--(1) The heading of such section is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 1131. Purple Heart: limitation on persons eligible''.
    (2) The item relating to such section in the table of sections at 
the beginning of chapter 57 of such title is amended to read as 
follows:

``1131. Purple Heart: limitation on persons eligible.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as of September 10, 2001, and shall apply with respect to 
persons killed or wounded on or after that date.
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