To amend Public Law 106-348 to extend the authorization for establishing a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor veterans who became disabled while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States.

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends the Act of October 24, 2000, which authorized the establishment in the District of Columbia of a service-disabled veterans' memorial, to extend the authority for establishing such memorial until October 24, 2015.

[110th Congress Public Law 106]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


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Public Law 110-106
110th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To amend Public Law 106-348 to extend the authorization for establishing 
a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor veterans 
  who became disabled while serving in the Armed Forces of the United 
             States. <<NOTE: Oct. 25, 2007 -  [H.R. 995]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 40 USC 8903 note.>> EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY FOR 
                              ESTABLISHING DISABLED VETERANS 
                              MEMORIAL.

    Public Law 106-348 is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking ``The establishment'' and inserting 
                ``Except as provided in subsection (e), the 
                establishment''; and
                    (B) by striking ``the Commemorative Works Act (40 
                U.S.C. 1001 et seq.)'' and inserting ``chapter 89 of 
                title 40, United States Code'';
            (2) in subsection (d)--
                    (A) by striking ``section 8(b) of the Commemorative 
                Works Act (40 U.S.C. 1008(b))'' and inserting ``section 
                8906 of title 40, United States Code'';
                    (B) by striking ``or upon expiration of the 
                authority for the memorial under section 10(b) of such 
                Act (40 U.S.C. 1010(b)),''; and
                    (C) by striking ``section 8(b)(1) of such Act (40 
                U.S.C. 1008(b)(1)'' and inserting ``8906(b)(2) or (3) of 
                such title''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:

    ``(e) Termination of Authority.--Notwithstanding section 8903(e) of 
title 40, United States Code, the authority to establish a memorial 
under this section shall expire on October 24, 2015.''.

    Approved October 25, 2007.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 995:
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SENATE REPORTS: No. 110-165 (Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 153 (2007):
            Mar. 5, considered and passed House.
            Oct. 24, considered and passed Senate.

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