No Glory for Hate Act

Bill: 118-hr-5812
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Sánchez, Linda T. [D-CA-38]
Introduced: 2023-09-28
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals

Employee benefits and pensions

Government buildings, facilities, and property

Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Monuments and memorials

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Protection of officials
Latest action: action_date: 2023-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-09-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>No Glory for Hate Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the use of federal funds to commemorate a president twice impeached by the House of Representatives and restricts the benefits afforded such president after leaving office.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill prohibits the use of federal funds for any symbol, monument, structure, building, or public land commemorating a former president twice impeached or who has been convicted of a state or federal crime relating to actions taken in an official capacity.</p> <p>The bill also restricts the benefits given to former presidents who have been twice impeached, including with regard to pension, staff, travel, and burial in Arlington National Cemetery.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5812 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 28, 2023 Ms. Sánchez (for herself, Ms. Schakowsky , Mr. Blumenauer , Ms. Williams of Georgia , Ms. Lee of California , and Mrs. Napolitano ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability , and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure , Natural Resources , Armed Services , and Veterans' Affairs , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To prohibit the use of Federal funds for the commemoration of certain former Presidents, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Glory for Hate Act . 2. Federal funds restriction on commemorating certain former Presidents Notwithstanding section 3102 of title 40, United States Code, no Federal funds may be used to— (1) create or display any symbol, monument, or statue commemorating any former President that has been twice impeached by the House of Representatives on or before the date of enactment of this Act or has been convicted of a State or Federal crime relating to actions taken in an official capacity as President of the United States on Federal public land, including any highway, park, subway, Federal building, military installation, street, or other Federal property; or (2) name, designate, or redesignate a Federal building or Federal land after, or in commemoration of, any former President that has been twice impeached by the House of Representatives on or before the date of enactment of this Act or has been convicted of a State or Federal crime relating to actions taken in an official capacity as President of the United States. 3. Restriction of Federal funds for property bearing the name of certain former Presidents Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds or other Federal financial assistance may be provided to a State, political subdivision thereof, or entity if any such funds or financial assistance will be used for the benefit of any building, land, structure, installation, or any other property that bears the name, or is named or designated in commemoration of, any former President that has been twice impeached by the House of Representatives on or before the date of enactment of this Act or has been convicted of a State or Federal crime relating to actions taken in an official capacity as President of the United States. 4. Former Presidents Act restriction Notwithstanding any provision of the Act entitled An Act to provide retirement, clerical assistants, and free mailing privileges to former Presidents of the United States, and for other purposes , approved August 25, 1958 ( 3 U.S.C. 102 note; commonly known as the Former Presidents Act of 1958 ), any former President that has been twice impeached by the House of Representatives on or before the date of enactment of this Act or has been convicted of a State or Federal crime relating to actions taken in an official capacity as President of the United States is not entitled to receive any benefit, other than Secret Service protection, under such Act. 5. Prohibition of burial of certain former Presidents Section 7722(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: (3) In carrying out paragraphs (1) and (2), the Secretary of Defense shall not approve a determination of eligibility for interment or inurnment in Arlington National Cemetery made by the Secretary of the Army that permits the interment or inurnment in Arlington National Cemetery of any former President that has been twice impeached by the House of Representatives on or before the date of enactment of this Act or has been convicted of a State or Federal crime relating to actions taken in an official capacity as President of the United States. .