Title: Private Corrado Piccoli Purple Heart Preservation Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Private Corrado Piccoli Purple Heart Preservation Act
This bill provides that regulations restricting the purchase, production, sale, or exchange of military medals or decorations may not authorize the sale of a Purple Heart awarded to a member of the Armed Forces, unless the sale is conducted by the member to whom the Purple Heart was awarded.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 765 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 765

To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for penalties for the 
   sale of any Purple Heart awarded to a member of the Armed Forces.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 29, 2017

  Mr. Perdue introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to provide for penalties for the 
   sale of any Purple Heart awarded to a member of the Armed Forces.

    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 ``Private Corrado Piccoli Purple Heart 
Preservation Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The Purple Heart medal solemnly recognizes the great 
        and sometimes ultimate sacrifice of American servicemembers 
        like Private Corrado Piccoli.
            (2) The Purple Heart medal holds a place of honor as the 
        national symbol of this sacrifice and deserves special 
        protections.

SEC. 3. PENALTY FOR SALE OF PURPLE HEARTS AWARDED TO MEMBERS OF THE 
              ARMED FORCES.

    Subsection (a) of section 704 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) In General.--
            ``(1) Penalty.--Whoever knowingly purchases, attempts to 
        purchase, solicits for purchase, mails, ships, imports, 
        exports, produces blank certificates of receipt for, 
        manufactures, sells, attempts to sell, advertises for sale, 
        trades, barters, or exchanges for anything of value any 
        decoration or medal authorized by Congress for the armed forces 
        of the United States, or any of the service medals or badges 
        awarded to the members of such forces, or the ribbon, button, 
        or rosette of any such badge, decoration or medal, or any 
        colorable imitation thereof, except when authorized under 
        regulations made pursuant to law, shall be fined under this 
        title, imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both.
            ``(2) Limitation on regulations.--Regulations described in 
        paragraph (1) may not authorize the sale of any Purple Heart 
        awarded to a member of the armed forces or former member of the 
        armed forces by the Secretary of the military department 
        concerned, unless the sale is conducted by the member or former 
        member to whom the Purple Heart was awarded.''.
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