A bill to exonerate and to provide a general and unconditional amnesty for certain persons who have violated or are alleged to have violated laws in the course of protest against the involvement of the United States in Indochina, and for other purposes.
Grants automatic, general amnesty to any person who during the period of United States involvement in Indochina, violated the Military Selective Service Act or committed certain military crimes. Establishes an Amnesty Commission to grant general amnesty to individuals who violated Federal, State or local law in the course of protesting against United States involvement in Indochina and to review denials of honorable discharges.
Authorizes the district courts to restore the United States citizenship of war resisters who renounced such citizenship.
Grants jurisdiction to the district courts to hear actions brought to redress the deprivation of rights granted by the general amnesty.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.
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