10 U.S.C. § 1521
Posthumous commissions
United States · Title 10 — ARMED FORCES · Status: effective
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- 10 U.S.C. § 1521, Posthumous commissions, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/433461
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The President may issue, or have issued, an appropriate commission in the name of a member of the armed forces who, after September 8, 1939—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001
- Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009