Title: Creig Sharp Funeral Honors for Veterans Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Creig Sharp Funeral Honors for Veterans Act
This bill requires the commander of each military installation, at or through which a funeral honors detail for a veteran is provided, to maintain and implement a plan for the requested provision of full military funeral honors at funerals of qualifying veterans.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1390 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1390

 To require plans for military installations for full military funeral 
               honors for veterans at such installations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 9, 2019

   Mr. Sullivan (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Duckworth, and Ms. 
  Murkowski) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require plans for military installations for full military funeral 
               honors for veterans at such installations.

    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 ``Creig Sharp Funeral Honors for 
Veterans Act''.

SEC. 2. FULL MILITARY FUNERAL HONORS FOR VETERANS AT MILITARY 
              INSTALLATIONS.

    (a) Installation Plans for Honors Required.--The commander of each 
military installation at or through which a funeral honors detail for a 
veteran is provided pursuant to section 1491 of title 10, United States 
Code, shall maintain and carry out a plan for the provision, upon 
request, of full military funeral honors at funerals of veterans for 
whom a funeral honors detail is authorized in that section.
    (b) Elements.--Each plan of an installation under subsection (a) 
shall include the following:
            (1) Mechanisms to ensure compliance with the requirements 
        applicable to the composition of funeral honors details in 
        section 1491(b) of title 10, United States Code.
            (2) Mechanisms to ensure compliance with the requirements 
        for ceremonies for funerals in section 1491(c) of such title.
            (3) In addition to the ceremonies required pursuant to 
        paragraph (2), the provision of a gun salute for each funeral 
        by appropriate personnel, including personnel of the 
        installation, members of the reserve components of the Armed 
        Forces residing in the vicinity of the installation who are 
        ordered to funeral honors duty, and members of veterans 
        organizations or other organizations referred to in section 
        1491(b)(2) of such title.
            (4) Mechanisms for the provision of support authorized by 
        section 1491(d) of such title.
            (5) Such other mechanisms and activities as the Secretary 
        concerned considers appropriate in order to assure that full 
        military funeral honors are provided upon request at funerals 
        of veterans.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``Secretary concerned'' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 101(a)(9) of title 10, United States Code.
            (2) The term ``veteran'' has the meaning given that term in 
        section 1491(h) of title 10, United States Code.
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