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113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 258
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED
STATES
May 21, 2013
Received
AN ACT
To amend title 18, United States Code, with
respect to fraudulent representations about having received military
decorations or medals.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
Stolen Valor Act of
2013.
2.
Fraudulent
representations about receipt of military decorations or medals
(a)
In
general
Section 704 of title
18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a),
by striking wears,; and
(2) so that subsection
(b) reads as follows:
(b)
Fraudulent
representations about receipt of military decorations or
medals
Whoever, with intent to obtain money, property, or other
tangible benefit, fraudulently holds oneself out to be a recipient of a
decoration or medal described in subsection (c)(2) or (d) shall be fined under
this title, imprisoned not more than one year, or
both.
.
(b)
Addition of
certain other medals
Section 704(d) of
title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking
If a decoration and inserting the following:
(1)
In
general
If a
decoration
;
(2) by inserting
a combat badge, after 1129 of title 10,;
and
(3) by adding at the
end the following:
(2)
Combat badge
defined
In this subsection,
the term combat badge means a Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Combat
Action Badge, Combat Medical Badge, Combat Action Ribbon, or Combat Action
Medal.
.
(c)
Conforming
amendment
Section 704 of title 18, United
States Code, is amended in each of subsections (c)(1) and (d) by striking
or (b).
Passed the House of
Representatives May 20, 2013.
Karen L. Haas,
Clerk