Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act

• •The bill establishes the 'Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Program' to identify Jewish servicemembers buried overseas under incorrect religious markers.
• •The program is authorized for a duration of 10 fiscal years following the bill's enactment.
• •The American Battle Monuments Commission is authorized to receive $500,000 in appropriations for each of the 10 years.
• •The Commission must seek to contract with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization each year to carry out the identification and outreach work.
• •Each annual contract is set at a value of $500,000.
• •Priority for contracts must be given to nonprofits with demonstrated expertise in identifying these specific gravesites.
• •The program includes a mandate to contact the survivors and descendants of the identified servicemembers.
• •Congress estimates that approximately 900 Jewish servicemembers from WWI and WWII are currently buried under incorrect markers, most commonly Latin Crosses.

The bill authorizes $500,000 in annual federal funding for 10 years to identify and potentially correct the religious markers of approximately 900 Jewish servicemembers buried in overseas military cemeteries.

Patterns POLISCOPE noticed across the record. These are observations to investigate, not conclusions.