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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2856 

To amend title 10, United States Code, to require that military decorations, 

ribbons, badges, medals, insignia, and other uniform accouterments used 

by the Armed Forces be produced in the United States. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 12, 2009 

Ms. FALLIN (for herself, Mr. TURNER, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. BOREN, Mr. 

MCCOTTER, Mr. BARTLETT, Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Mr. COLE, Mr. SKELTON, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. KLINE of Minnesota, Mr. FLEMING, and Mr. HUNTER) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 

A BILL 

To amend title 10, United States Code, to require that 

military decorations, ribbons, badges, medals, insignia, 

and other uniform accouterments used by the Armed 

Forces be produced in the United States. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘U.S. Military Medals 

5 and Insignia Pride and Patriotism Act of 2009’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO BUY MILITARY DECORATIONS, 

2 RIBBONS, BADGES, MEDALS, INSIGNIA, AND 

3 OTHER UNIFORM ACCOUTERMENTS PRO4 DUCED IN THE UNITED STATES. 

5 (a) REQUIREMENT.—Subchapter III of chapter 147 

6 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at 

7 the end the following new section: 

8 ‘‘§ 2495c. Requirement to buy military decorations 

9 and other uniform accouterments from 

10 American sources; exceptions 

11 ‘‘(a) BUY-AMERICAN REQUIREMENT.—A military ex12 change store or other nonappropriated fund instrumen13 tality of the Department of Defense may not purchase for 

14 resale any military decorations, ribbons, badges, medals, 

15 insignia, and other uniform accouterments that are not 

16 produced in the United States. Competitive procedures 

17 shall be used in selecting the United States producer of 

18 the decorations. 

19 ‘‘(b) HERALDIC QUALITY CONTROL.—No certificate 

20 of authority (contained in part 507 of title 32, Code of 

21 Federal Regulations) for the manufacture and sale of any 

22 item reference in subsection (a) by the Institute of Her23 aldry, the Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility, 

24 or the Marine Corps Combat Equipment and Support Sys25 tems for quality control and specifications purposes shall 


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1 be permitted unless these items are from domestic mate2 rial manufactured in the United States. 

3 ‘‘(c) EXCEPTION.—Subsections (a) and (b) do not 

4 apply to the extent that the Secretary of Defense deter5 mines that a satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity 

6 of an item covered by subsection (a) and produced in the 

7 United States cannot be procured. 

8 ‘‘(d) UNITED STATES DEFINED.—In this section, the 

9 term ‘United States’ includes the Commonwealth of Puer10 to Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the Com11 monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American 

12 Samoa, and any other territory or possession of the United 

13 States.’’. 

14 (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 

15 at the beginning of such subchapter is amended by adding 

16 at the end the following new item: 

‘‘2495c. Requirement to buy military decorations and other uniform 

accouterments from American sources; exceptions.’’. 

17 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 

18 2533a(b)(1) of such title is amended— 

19 (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘or’’ at 

20 the end; 

21 (2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period 

22 at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 

23 (3) by adding at the end the following new sub24 paragraph: 


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1 ‘‘(F) military decorations, ribbons, badges, 

2 medals, insignia, and other uniform 

3 accouterments.’’. 

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