PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1596

PRINTER'S NO.  1837

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

1186

Session of

2010

  

  

INTRODUCED BY TOMLINSON, McILHINNEY, BAKER, PIPPY, D. WHITE, TARTAGLIONE, FONTANA, STOUT, ORIE, M. WHITE, RAFFERTY, COSTA, BOSCOLA, O'PAKE, WAUGH, ALLOWAY, WARD, ERICKSON, GREENLEAF AND STACK, JANUARY 11, 2010

  

  

SENATOR CORMAN, APPROPRIATIONS, RE-REPORTED AS AMENDED, APRIL 12, 2010   

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes, further providing for burial details

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for veterans.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 705 of Title 51 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes is amended to read: 

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§ 705.  Burial details for veterans.

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(a)  Authority.--The department shall have the power to

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arrange for burial details for veteran soldiers who are to be

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interred in the Indiantown Gap National Cemetery [and], the

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National Cemetery of the Alleghenies and the Washington Crossing

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National Cemetery.

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(b)  Contracts.--The department may enter into contracts with

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a Statewide nonprofit fraternal society that represents various

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veterans' groups for the purpose of providing the burial details

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authorized by this section. In any such contract the department

 


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shall pay an amount not exceeding $150 for each day that the

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burial detail is provided, and no other expenses shall be paid

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by the department under the contract.

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(c)  Terms.--Any burial detail contract entered into under

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this section shall include the following terms:

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(1)  A minimum of three veterans shall participate in the

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burial detail.

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(2)  The veterans shall be similarly uniformed and

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equipped.

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(3)  A bugler shall perform taps or a recording of taps

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may be played over the tape recording system of the cemetery.

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(4)  The party under the contract shall indemnify and

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hold harmless the department and the Commonwealth from any

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claims arising out of the performance of the burial details.

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(d)  Insurance.--Any veterans organization, the members of

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which perform a burial detail pursuant to this section, shall

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provide liability insurance for the burial details in such

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amount as prescribed by the department.

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(e)  Regulations.--The department shall promulgate the rules

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and regulations necessary to carry out this section.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days 

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immediately.

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