To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the display of the Confederate battle flag in national cemeteries.

Bill: 114-hr-3007
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2015-07-09
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals

National symbols

Racial and ethnic relations

Veterans' organizations and recognition
Latest action: action_date: 2015-08-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-07-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill prohibits the Confederate battle flag's display in any national cemetery under the control of the National Cemetery Administration.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3007 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 9, 2015 Mr. Gallego (for himself, Ms. Lee , Ms. Norton , Mr. Van Hollen , Mr. Cummings , Mr. Walz , Mrs. Beatty , Mr. Cartwright , Mr. Serrano , Ms. Schakowsky , and Mr. Clay ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit the display of the Confederate battle flag in national cemeteries.

1. Prohibition on display of Confederate battle flag in national cemeteries (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Confederate battle flag is a potent reminder of a deeply divisive period of our Nation’s history, recalling the human suffering of slavery and Jim Crow. (2) For millions of Americans, including veterans and their families, the Confederate battle flag is a symbol of intolerance, injustice, and inequality. (3) Flying the Confederate battle flag, originally the banner of forces fighting the armies of the United States, is offensive and inappropriate at cemeteries and other sites dedicated to the memory of America’s courageous war dead. (b) Prohibition Chapter 24 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 2415. Prohibition on display of Confederate battle flag The Secretary shall prohibit the display of the Confederate battle flag in any national cemetery under the control of the National Cemetery Administration. . (c) Clerical amendment The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: 2415. Prohibition on display of Confederate battle flag. .