I 
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. ABER-
CROMBIE, Mr. COLE, Mr. SKELTON, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. KLINE of Min-
nesota, 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘U.S. Military Medals 
and Insignia Pride and Patriotism Act of 2009’’. 
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SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT TO BUY MILITARY DECORATIONS, 
RIBBONS, BADGES, MEDALS, INSIGNIA, AND 
OTHER 
UNIFORM 
ACCOUTERMENTS 
PRO-
DUCED IN THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Subchapter III of chapter 147 
of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following new section: 
‘‘§ 2495c. Requirement to buy military decorations 
and other uniform accouterments from 
American sources; exceptions 
‘‘(a) BUY-AMERICAN REQUIREMENT.—A military ex-
change store or other nonappropriated fund instrumen-
tality of the Department of Defense may not purchase for 
resale any military decorations, ribbons, badges, medals, 
insignia, and other uniform accouterments that are not 
produced in the United States. Competitive procedures 
shall be used in selecting the United States producer of 
the decorations. 
‘‘(b) HERALDIC QUALITY CONTROL.—No certificate 
of authority (contained in part 507 of title 32, Code of 
Federal Regulations) for the manufacture and sale of any 
item reference in subsection (a) by the Institute of Her-
aldry, the Navy Clothing and Textile Research Facility, 
or the Marine Corps Combat Equipment and Support Sys-
tems for quality control and specifications purposes shall 
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be permitted unless these items are from domestic mate-
rial manufactured in the United States. 
‘‘(c) EXCEPTION.—Subsections (a) and (b) do not 
apply to the extent that the Secretary of Defense deter-
mines that a satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity 
of an item covered by subsection (a) and produced in the 
United States cannot be procured. 
‘‘(d) UNITED STATES DEFINED.—In this section, the 
term ‘United States’ includes the Commonwealth of Puer-
to Rico, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American 
Samoa, and any other territory or possession of the United 
States.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such subchapter is amended by adding 
at the end the following new item: 
‘‘2495c. Requirement to buy military decorations and other uniform 
accouterments from American sources; exceptions.’’. 
(c) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
2533a(b)(1) of such title is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘or’’ at 
the end; 
(2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph: 
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‘‘(F) military decorations, ribbons, badges, 
medals, 
insignia, 
and 
other 
uniform 
accouterments.’’. 
Æ 
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