NOTICE OF PENDING LEGISLATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00375R000100100031-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2002
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: September 25, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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NOTICE OF PENDING LEGISLATION
SECTION I GENERAL
000100100031-7
Sept 1959
TO : Personnel
THE ATTACHED BILL, WHICH HAS BEEN INTRODUCED INTO CONGRESS, IS:
-" SENT TO YOU FOR INFORMATION ONLY.
A BILL ON WHICH FAVORABLE CONGRESSIONAL ACTION C- IS
SENT FOR YOUR COMMENT AS TO WHETHER IT IS OF INTEREST TO CIA ACTIVITIES, AND WHETHER
FURTHER ACTION BY THIS OFFICE IS NECESSARY OR DESIRED.
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~1 T ZS REQUESTED THAT COMM04TS CONCERNING THIS LEGISLATION BE FORWARDED, TNROUGN
APPROPRIATE CHANNELS, TO THIS OFFICE, BY
SECTION 11 COMMENTS Froa Original Addreeeee1
TO : LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL FROM:
OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL
FORM NO, 488 REPLACES FORM 23-3
I FEB $3 v WHICH MAY ^E USED.
 Approved For; a ease bW64 : I AIRCDP85-00375RO0100100031-7
86th Coress, S. 825
8"Moer _14 1959
AN ACT
73 STAT. 547.
To reriee eligibility requlreaueat^ for burial in national cemeteries, and for
other purpoeee. -
Be it enacted by the Senate and Bowe of Representatives of tAe
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of Natiorwi
3f4y 14, 1948 (ch. 88x, 68 Stat. 834)l is amended to read as follows: osmst.ries.
"(a) tinder such regulations as tits Secretary of the Army may, Burial alt-
with the approval of the Seae#ary of Defense} prescribe, the remains gibi1i1y.
of the following persons may be buried in national cemeteries: 24 tac 261
(1) Any member or format member of the Armed Forces who 1Ota?
Bernd on active duty (other than for training) and whose last such
service terminated honorably.
"(8) Any member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces,
and any member of the Amy National Guard or the Air National
Guard, whose death occurs under honorable conditions while he is-
"(A) on active duty for training, or performing full-time
service under section 316, 5.08, 504, or 505 of title 82, United 70A Scat. 605,
LRates Code
serv ; u y or
"(C) on authorised inactive duty training, including training
performed as a member of the Army -National Guard or the Air
National Guard; or
" CD) hospitalized or undergoing treatment, at the expense of
the , nited States, for injury or disease contracted or incurred
under honorable conditions while he is-
" i) on that duty or service;
il) performing that travel or inactive duty training; or
iii) undergoing that hospitalization or treatment at the
expense of the United States.
"(3) Any member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the
Army, Navy, or Air Force whose death occurs under honorable condi-
tions while he is-
"(A) attending an authorized training camp or on an author-
ized practice cruise;
"(B) performing authorized travel to or from that camp or
cruise; or
"(C) hospitalized or undergoing treatment, at the expense of
the United States, for injury or, disease contracted or incurred
under honorable conditions while he is-
i) attending that camp or on that cruise;
" u) performing that travel; or
"iii) undergoing that hospitalization or treatment
expense of the United States. at the
't(4) Any citizen of the United States who, during any war in which
the United States is or has been engaged, served in the armed forces
of any government allied with the United States during that war,
and whose last such service terminated honorably.
"(5) The wife, husband, surviving spouse, minor child, and in the
discretion of the Secretary of the Arm , unmarried adult child of
any of the persons listed in clauses (1)-(4) .
"(B) performing authorized travel to or from that d t