Honoring Purple Heart Recipients Act of 2022

Honoring Purple Heart Recipients Act of 2022

This bill requires the Department of Defense to include individuals who are awarded the Purple Heart for qualifying actions that occur after the date of the enactment of this bill on its publicly accessible website that lists individuals who are recipients of certain military awards. Under the bill, the individual or their next of kin must elect to have the individual included on the list and the public release of the individual's name must be determined to not pose a security risk.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4006 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4006

To direct the Secretary of Defense to list certain individuals who are 
 awarded the Purple Heart on the internet website of the Department of 
 Defense that lists individuals who have been awarded certain military 
                                awards.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 5, 2022

Mr. Toomey (for himself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Tester, Mrs. Capito, Ms. Rosen, 
    Mr. Daines, Mr. King, and Mr. Scott of Florida) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Defense to list certain individuals who are 
 awarded the Purple Heart on the internet website of the Department of 
 Defense that lists individuals who have been awarded certain military 
                                awards.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Honoring Purple Heart Recipients Act 
of 2022''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF PURPLE HEART AWARDS ON MILITARY VALOR WEBSITE.

    The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the publicly accessible 
internet website of the Department of Defense that lists individuals 
who have been awarded certain military awards includes a list of each 
individual who meets each of the following criteria:
            (1) The individual is awarded the Purple Heart for 
        qualifying actions that occur after the date of the enactment 
        of this Act.
            (2) The individual elects to be included on such list (or, 
        if the individual is deceased, the primary next of kin elects 
        the individual to be included on such list).
            (3) The public release of the individual's name does not 
        constitute a security risk, as determined by the Secretary of 
        the military department concerned.
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