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

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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]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB461-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 432
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 461 Session of2011
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
Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, establishing a Decoration of Veterans'
Graves Fund.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 51 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 3706. Decoration of Veterans' Graves Fund.
(a) Establishment of fund.--There is established in the
State Treasury a restricted receipts account within the General
Fund which shall be known as the Decoration of Veterans' Graves
Fund.
(b) Purpose.--All contributions received for the benefit of
the fund shall be used by the department to procure suitable
veterans' grave markers and United States flags to be
distributed to participating counties for the perpetual
decoration of veterans' graves. The equitable distribution of
suitable veterans' grave markers and flags shall be determined
by the department based on application information submitted
annually by participating counties.
(c) Administration of program.--
(1) The department shall accept voluntary contributions
from persons for deposit into the fund.
(2) All moneys received shall be deposited into the
fund.
(d) Use of fund.--The moneys deposited in the fund shall be
distributed on a continuing basis for the procurement of markers
and flags for veterans' graves.
(e) Reporting.--Not later than July 31, 2012, and July 31
each year thereafter for the length of the program, the
department shall submit a status report on the Decoration of
Veterans' Graves Fund program to include all moneys in the fund
and distribution of the flags and veterans' markers to the
participating counties, to the Veterans Affairs and Emergency
Preparedness Committee of the Senate and to the Veterans Affairs
and Emergency Preparedness Committee of the House of
Representatives.
(f) Guidelines.--The department shall develop guidelines for
the administration of this section.
Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.
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