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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY TOMLINSON, McILHINNEY, BAKER, ERICKSON, ORIE, FONTANA, BOSCOLA, STACK, EARLL, RAFFERTY, PIPPY, SOLOBAY, TARTAGLIONE, M. WHITE, COSTA, MENSCH, GREENLEAF, WARD, BRUBAKER, ALLOWAY AND WAUGH, JANUARY 26, 2011 |
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| REFERRED TO VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, JANUARY 26, 2011 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania |
2 | Consolidated Statutes, further providing for burial details |
3 | for veterans. |
4 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
5 | hereby enacts as follows: |
6 | Section 1. Section 705 of Title 51 of the Pennsylvania |
7 | Consolidated Statutes is amended to read: |
8 | § 705. Burial details for veterans. |
9 | (a) Authority.--The department shall have the power to |
10 | arrange for burial details for veteran soldiers who are to be |
11 | interred in the Indiantown Gap National Cemetery [and], the |
12 | National Cemetery of the Alleghenies and the Washington Crossing |
13 | National Cemetery. |
14 | (b) Contracts.--The department may enter into contracts with |
15 | a Statewide nonprofit fraternal society that represents various |
16 | veterans' groups for the purpose of providing the burial details |
17 | authorized by this section. In any such contract the department |
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1 | shall pay an amount not exceeding $150 for each day that the |
2 | burial detail is provided, and no other expenses shall be paid |
3 | by the department under the contract. |
4 | (c) Terms.--Any burial detail contract entered into under |
5 | this section shall include the following terms: |
6 | (1) A minimum of three veterans shall participate in the |
7 | burial detail. |
8 | (2) The veterans shall be similarly uniformed and |
9 | equipped. |
10 | (3) A bugler shall perform taps or a recording of taps |
11 | may be played over the tape recording system of the cemetery. |
12 | (4) The party under the contract shall indemnify and |
13 | hold harmless the department and the Commonwealth from any |
14 | claims arising out of the performance of the burial details. |
15 | (d) Insurance.--Any veterans organization, the members of |
16 | which perform a burial detail pursuant to this section, shall |
17 | provide liability insurance for the burial details in such |
18 | amount as prescribed by the department. |
19 | (e) Regulations.--The department shall promulgate the rules |
20 | and regulations necessary to carry out this section. |
21 | Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |
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