CONGRESS FOR VOTERS

Robert Bresnahan (R-PA)

Sgt. Walter F. Hartnett IV Green Star Veterans Service Act

H.R. 6022 · House bill Armed Forces and National Security

A Republican bill with 5 Democratic cosponsors · See all 11 cosponsors

Last activity — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

In committee

Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.

The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. In Committee

What this bill would do

This bill is known as the Sgt. Walter F. Hartnett IV Green Star Veterans Service Act. It requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to design and designate a Green Star Service Flag. This flag is meant to identify the next of kin of veterans who died as a result of suicide on or after September 11, 2001. Individuals who are the next of kin of these covered veterans are entitled to display the flag. Additionally, the bill allows people to apply for a license to manufacture and sell the flag. Manufacturing the flag without a license results in a civil penalty of not more than $1,000.

Yes

  • Scored +3

    Would veterans be better off under this, taking everything together?

    Creates a formal recognition flag for the families of veterans who died by suicide.

  • Scored +2

    Does this increase the pay, pensions or support veterans receive?

    Provides symbolic recognition for the families of veterans who died by suicide.

The opposite

No question was scored the opposite.