To amend title 18, United States Code, to include a penalty for the destruction of a memorial of a constitutional leader, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-7381
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Banks, Jim [R-IN-3]
Introduced: 2020-06-26
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Crimes against property

Monuments and memorials

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

U.S. history
Latest action: action_date: 2020-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-06-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill expands the applicability of an existing criminal statute that protects veterans' monuments.</p> <p>Currently, it is a crime to willfully injure or destroy a monument that commemorates a person who served in the Armed Forces. </p> <p>This bill expands the prohibition to also make it a crime to willfully injure or destroy a monument that commemorates a person who signed the Declaration of Independence, or a President.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7381 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 26, 2020 Mr. Banks (for himself, Mr. Roy , Mr. Budd , and Mr. Bishop of North Carolina ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To amend title 18, United States Code, to include a penalty for the destruction of a memorial of a constitutional leader, and for other purposes.

1. Destruction of veterans, Presidents of the United States, or signers of the Declaration of Independence memorials Section 1369 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) in the section heading by striking veterans ’ and inserting veterans, Presidents of the United States, or signers of the Declaration of Independence ; and (2) in subsection (a) by inserting , a person or persons who signed the Declaration of Independence, or a President of the United States after United States .