To amend title 10, United States Code, to eliminate the statute of limitations on the award of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Eliminates the statute of limitations on the award of the Medal of Honor. (Under current law, the Medal must be awarded within three years after the date of the act justifying the award.)

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
[H.R. 1532 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1532

  To amend title 10, United States Code, to eliminate the statute of 
     limitations on the award of the congressional medal of honor.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 2009

  Mr. Sestak 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 eliminate the statute of 
     limitations on the award of the congressional medal of honor.

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

SECTION 1. ELIMINATION OF STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ON AWARD OF 
              CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR.

    (a) Army.--Section 3744 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``medal of honor,'';
            (2) in subsection (d), by striking ``medal of honor,''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(e) No medal of honor or device in place thereof may be awarded 
to a person unless it appears from records of the Department of the 
Army that the person is entitled to the award.''.
    (b) Navy and Marine Corps.--
            (1) Limitations of time.--Section 6248 of such title is 
        amended--
                    (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``medal of 
                honor,''; and
                    (B) in subsection (b), by striking ``medal of 
                honor,''.
            (2) Posthumous awards.--Section 6250 of such title is 
        amended--
                    (A) by inserting ``(a) Award Authorized; Time 
                Limitation.--'' before ``If''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                subsection:
    ``(b) Exception for Medal of Honor.--The time limitation specified 
in subsection (a) does not apply in the case of the posthumous award of 
the medal of honor.''.
    (c) Air Force.--Section 8744 of such title is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``medal of honor,'';
            (2) in subsection (d), by striking ``medal of honor,''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(e) No medal of honor or device in place thereof may be awarded 
to a person unless it appears from records of the Department of the Air 
Force that the person is entitled to the award.''.
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