PRINTER'S NO.  300

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

345

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY PETRI, BARRAR, SAINATO, FARRY, O'NEILL, WATSON, CALTAGIRONE, D. COSTA, DeWEESE, GOODMAN, MOUL, MURT, RAPP AND WHITE, JANUARY 31, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, JANUARY 31, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes, further providing for burial details

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for veterans.

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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.  Section 705(a) of Title 51 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

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§ 705.  Burial details for veterans.

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(a)  Authority.--The department shall have the power to

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arrange for burial details for veteran soldiers who are to be

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interred [in the Indiantown Gap National Cemetery and the

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National Cemetery of the Alleghenies.] at any of the following

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national cemeteries:

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(1)  Indiantown Gap National Cemetery.

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(2)  National Cemetery of the Alleghenies.

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(3)  Washington Crossing National Cemetery.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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