§ 8291. Medal of honor

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1956

   Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 389, § 6241 · 70A Stat. 389

   Enacted · 10 U.S.C. § 8291

   Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 389, § 6241

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 389, § 6241

2. 1963

   Pub. L. 88–77 § 2(1) · 77 Stat. 93

   Substituted · 10 U.S.C. § 8291

   Pub. L. 88–77 enlarged the authority to award the medal of honor, which was limited to those cases in which persons distinguished themselves in action involving actual conflict with an enemy, or in the line of his profession, and without detriment to the mission of his command or to the command to which attached, to permit its award for distinguished service while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States, while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force, or while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party, and substituted the requirement that it be of appropriate design, with ribbons and appurtenances, for the requirement that it be the same as that authorized on August 8, 1942

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 88–77 enlarged the authority to award the medal of honor, which was limited to those cases in which persons distinguished themselves in action involving actual conflict with an enemy, or in the line of his profession, and without detriment to the mission of his command or to the command to which attached, to permit its award for distinguished service while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States, while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force, or while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party, and substituted the requirement that it be of appropriate design, with ribbons and appurtenances, for the requirement that it be the same as that authorized on August 8, 1942.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (1) Section 6241 is amended to read as follows: 70A Stat. 389. “§ 6241. Medal of honor “The President may award, and present in the name of Congress, a medal of honor of appropriate design, with ribbons and appurtenances, to a person who, while a member of the naval service, distinguishes himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the cal] of duty— “(1) while engaged in an action against, an enemy of the United States; “(2) while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; “(3) while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party,”

3. 1996

   National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996

   Pub. L. 104–106 div. A title XV § 1503(b)(2) · 110 Stat. 186

   Inserted · 10 U.S.C. § 8291(2)

   Pub. L. 104–106 inserted “or” after “an opposing foreign force;”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Par. (2). Pub. L. 104–106 inserted “or” after “an opposing foreign force;”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (2) Section 6241 is amended by inserting “or” at the end of paragraph (2).

4. 2018

   John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019

   Pub. L. 115–232 div. A title VIII § 807(b)(13) · 132 Stat. 1636

   Changed · 10 U.S.C. § 8291

   Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 6241 of this title as this section

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 6241 of this title as this section.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (13) Chapter 567.— Each section in chapter 567 10 USC 8291–8308. is redesignated so that the number of the section, as redesignated, is the number equal to the previous number plus 2,050.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

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