Bill Text: PA HB461 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishing a Decoration of Veterans' Graves Fund.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-04 - Referred to VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS [HB461 Detail]

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PRINTER'S NO.  432

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

461

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY SAINATO, O'NEILL, BISHOP, CALTAGIRONE, V. BROWN, CONKLIN, EVERETT, GOODMAN, HALUSKA, HORNAMAN, KORTZ, KOTIK, LONGIETTI, McGEEHAN, MIRABITO, MURPHY, MURT, M. O'BRIEN, PRESTON, REICHLEY, READSHAW, YOUNGBLOOD AND FABRIZIO, FEBRUARY 4, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, FEBRUARY 4, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes, establishing a Decoration of Veterans'

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Graves Fund.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Title 51 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

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Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:

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§ 3706.  Decoration of Veterans' Graves Fund.

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(a)  Establishment of fund.--There is established in the

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State Treasury a restricted receipts account within the General

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Fund which shall be known as the Decoration of Veterans' Graves

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Fund.

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(b)  Purpose.--All contributions received for the benefit of

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the fund shall be used by the department to procure suitable

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veterans' grave markers and United States flags to be

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distributed to participating counties for the perpetual

 


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decoration of veterans' graves. The equitable distribution of

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suitable veterans' grave markers and flags shall be determined

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by the department based on application information submitted

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annually by participating counties.

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(c)  Administration of program.--

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(1)  The department shall accept voluntary contributions

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from persons for deposit into the fund.

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(2)  All moneys received shall be deposited into the

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fund.

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(d)  Use of fund.--The moneys deposited in the fund shall be

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distributed on a continuing basis for the procurement of markers

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and flags for veterans' graves.

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(e)  Reporting.--Not later than July 31, 2012, and July 31

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each year thereafter for the length of the program, the

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department shall submit a status report on the Decoration of

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Veterans' Graves Fund program to include all moneys in the fund

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and distribution of the flags and veterans' markers to the

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participating counties, to the Veterans Affairs and Emergency

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Preparedness Committee of the Senate and to the Veterans Affairs

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and Emergency Preparedness Committee of the House of

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Representatives.

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(f)  Guidelines.--The department shall develop guidelines for

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the administration of this section.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.

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