Title: Removing Confederate Names and Symbols from Our Military Act of 2020
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Removing Confederate Names and Symbols from Our Military Act of 2020
This bill requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to remove from its property, and prohibits DOD from using or displaying in the future, any name, symbol, display, monument, or paraphernalia that honors or commemorates the Confederacy or anyone who served voluntarily with the Confederacy. The removal requirement does not apply to grave markers.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4076 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4076

    To remove Confederate names, symbols, displays, monuments, and 
        paraphernalia from assets of the Department of Defense.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 25, 2020

 Ms. Warren (for herself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Markey, Ms. 
    Baldwin, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Casey, Mr. 
 Whitehouse, Mr. Durbin, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Van Hollen, Mrs. Gillibrand, 
 Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Harris, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Murray, Mrs. 
Feinstein, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Booker, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Udall, Mr. Leahy, 
   Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Murphy, Ms. Smith, Mr. Merkley, Ms. Hassan, Ms. 
 Cantwell, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Coons, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. Rosen, and Ms. 
  Duckworth) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To remove Confederate names, symbols, displays, monuments, and 
        paraphernalia from assets of the Department of Defense.

    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 ``Removing Confederate Names and 
Symbols from Our Military Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF CONFEDERATE NAMES, SYMBOLS, DISPLAYS, MONUMENTS, AND 
              PARAPHERNALIA FROM ASSETS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

    (a) Removal.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), not 
        later than one year after the date of the enactment of this 
        Act, the Secretary of Defense shall remove all names, symbols, 
        displays, monuments, and paraphernalia that honor or 
        commemorate the Confederate States of America (commonly 
        referred to as the ``Confederacy'') or any person who served 
        voluntarily with the Confederate States of America from all 
        assets of the Department of Defense.
            (2) Exemption for grave markers.--The requirement under 
        paragraph (1) shall not apply to grave markers.
    (b) Certification.--Upon completion of the removal required under 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on the 
Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives a certification in writing detailing that such 
removal has been completed.
    (c) Prohibition on Display.--Beginning on the date on which the 
Secretary submits the certification required by subsection (b), the 
Secretary may not place, assign, or otherwise use any name, symbol, 
display, monument, or paraphernalia that honors or commemorates the 
Confederate States of America or any person who served voluntarily with 
the Confederate States of America at any asset of the Department.
    (d) Asset Defined.--In this section, the term ``asset'' includes 
any base, installation, street, building, facility, aircraft, ship, 
plane, weapon, equipment, or any other property owned or controlled by 
the Department of Defense.
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