Honoring Purple Heart Recipients Act of 2022

Bill: 117-s-4006
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Toomey, Patrick [R-PA]
Introduced: 2022-04-05
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Conflicts and wars

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Military operations and strategy

Military personnel and dependents
Latest action: action_date: 2022-04-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-04-05
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Honoring Purple Heart Recipients Act</strong> <strong>of 2022</strong><strong></strong></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Defense to include individuals who are awarded the Purple Heart for qualifying actions that occur after the date of the enactment of this bill on its publicly accessible website that lists individuals who are recipients of certain military awards. Under the bill, the individual or their next of kin must elect to have the individual included on the list and the public release of the individual's name must be determined to not pose a security risk.<br> </p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4006 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 5, 2022 Mr. Toomey (for himself, Mr. Casey , Mr. Tester , Mrs. Capito , Ms. Rosen , Mr. Daines , Mr. King , and Mr. Scott of Florida ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To direct the Secretary of Defense to list certain individuals who are awarded the Purple Heart on the internet website of the Department of Defense that lists individuals who have been awarded certain military awards.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Honoring Purple Heart Recipients Act of 2022 . 2. Inclusion of Purple Heart awards on military valor website The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the publicly accessible internet website of the Department of Defense that lists individuals who have been awarded certain military awards includes a list of each individual who meets each of the following criteria: (1) The individual is awarded the Purple Heart for qualifying actions that occur after the date of the enactment of this Act. (2) The individual elects to be included on such list (or, if the individual is deceased, the primary next of kin elects the individual to be included on such list). (3) The public release of the individual’s name does not constitute a security risk, as determined by the Secretary of the military department concerned.