Title: First Infantry Recognition of Sacrifice in Theater Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
First Infantry Recognition of Sacrifice in Theater Act or the FIRST Act
This bill authorizes the Society of the First Infantry Division to modify the First Division Monument located on federal land in Presidential Park, District of Columbia, to honor members of the First Infantry Division of the U.S. Army who died during U.S. operations, including Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, and Operation Enduring Freedom.
The First Infantry Division must provide the society with a list of names to be added to the monument.
The Commemorative Works Act, which prohibits monuments to military units, shall not apply to this authorization.
Federal funds may not be used to pay the society for the modification.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 389 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 389

    To authorize the Society of the First Infantry Division to make 
modifications to the First Division Monument located on Federal land in 
 Presidential Park in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 7, 2019

Mr. Moran (for himself and Mr. Roberts) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the Society of the First Infantry Division to make 
modifications to the First Division Monument located on Federal land in 
 Presidential Park in the District of Columbia, 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 ``First Infantry Recognition of 
Sacrifice in Theater Act'' or the ``FIRST Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION TO FIRST DIVISION MONUMENT.

    (a) Authorization.--
            (1) In general.--The Society of the First Infantry 
        Division, an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the 
        Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation under 
        section 501(a) of that Code, may make modifications, including 
        construction of additional plaques and stone plinths on which 
        to put plaques, to the First Division Monument located on 
        Federal land in Presidential Park in the District of Columbia 
        that was set aside for memorial purposes of the First Infantry 
        Division, to honor the members of the First Infantry Division 
        who made the ultimate sacrifice during United States 
        operations, including Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi 
        Freedom and New Dawn, and Operation Enduring Freedom.
            (2) Collaboration.--The First Infantry Division at the 
        Department of the Army shall collaborate with the Department of 
        Defense to provide to the Society of the First Infantry 
        Division the list of names to be added to the First Division 
        Monument under paragraph (1).
    (b) Nonapplicability of Commemorative Works Act.--Subsections (b) 
and (c) of section 8903 of title 40, United States Code (commonly known 
as the ``Commemorative Works Act''), shall not apply to any activity 
carried out pursuant to subsection (a).
    (c) Funding.--Federal funds may not be used to pay any expense of 
the activities of the Society of the First Infantry Division authorized 
by this section.
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