Title: Army Security Agency Monument Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Army Security Agency Monument Act
This bill directs the Department of the Army to place in Arlington National Cemetery a monument honoring Army Security Agency veterans if the National Army Security Agency Association agrees to certain requirements, including that the association pay the monument's site preparation, construction, and maintenance costs.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2970 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2970

  To direct the Secretary of the Army to place in Arlington National 
Cemetery a monument honoring Army Security Agency veterans of World War 
 II, the Korean conflict, and the Vietnam Era, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2019

  Ms. Adams (for herself and Mrs. Hartzler) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in 
    addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of the Army to place in Arlington National 
Cemetery a monument honoring Army Security Agency veterans of World War 
 II, the Korean conflict, and the Vietnam Era, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Army Security Agency Monument Act''.

SEC. 2. PLACEMENT OF MONUMENT HONORING VETERANS OF THE ARMY SECURITY 
              AGENCY WHO SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES BETWEEN 1945 AND 
              1976, DURING WORLD WAR II, THE KOREAN CONFLICT, AND THE 
              VIETNAM ERA.

    (a) In General.--Subject to the requirements of subsection (c), the 
Secretary of the Army shall place in Arlington National Cemetery a 
monument honoring Army Security Agency veterans who served in the Armed 
Forces between 1945 and 1976, during World War II, the Korean conflict, 
and the Vietnam era.
    (b) Design.--The monument placed under subsection (a) shall be 
based on a design approved by the Secretary of the Army and the 
National Army Security Agency Association.
    (c) Agreement for Construction and Maintenance.--The Secretary of 
the Army may only place a monument under subsection (a) if the 
Secretary enters into an agreement with the National Army Security 
Agency Association under which the Association agrees to pay all costs 
necessary for preparation of the site for the monument and to 
construct, install, and maintain the monument, and to such other 
provisions as the Secretary may require.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section, the terms ``World War II'', 
``Korean conflict'', and ``Vietnam era'' have the meanings given such 
terms in section 101 of title 38, United States Code.
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