To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the use and sale of military medals and decorations.

Amends the Federal criminal code to delete the $250 cap on the maximum fine for the unauthorized wearing, manufacturing, or selling of military decorations or medals.

Specifies that if the decoration or medal involved in the offense is a Congressional Medal of Honor the offender shall be fined or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

Includes as sales, with respect to a Congressional Medal of Honor, trades, barters, or exchanges for anything of value.

[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1629 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1629

To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the use and sale 
                  of military medals and decorations.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 1993

 Mr. McCandless (for himself, Mr. Parker, Mr. Solomon, Mr. Paxon, Mr. 
    Dornan, and Mr. Lazio) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the use and sale 
                  of military medals and decorations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 704 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``Whoever'';
            (2) by striking ``not more than $250'' and inserting 
        ``under this title''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b)(1) If the decoration or medal involved in an offense under 
subsection (a) of this section is a Congressional Medal of Honor, in 
lieu of the punishment provided in such subsection the offender shall 
be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or 
both.
    ``(2) As used in subsection (a) of this section with respect to a 
Congressional Medal of Honor, the term `sells' includes trades, 
barters, or exchanges for anything of value.
    ``(3) As used in this subsection, the term `Congressional Medal of 
Honor' is a medal awarded under section 3741 of title 10.''.

                                 <all>