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H.R. 7381

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To amend title 18, United States Code, to include a penalty for the destruction of a memorial of a constitutional leader, and for other purposes.
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Committee
Latest Action · June 26, 2020
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Congress
116th (2019–2021)
Introduced
June 26, 2020
Cosponsors (5)
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This bill expands the applicability of an existing criminal statute that protects veterans' monuments. Currently, it is a crime to willfully injure or destroy a monument that commemorates a person who served in the Armed Forces. This bill expands the prohibition to also make it a crime to willfully injure or destroy a monument that commemorates a person who signed the Declaration of Independence, or a President.

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