HF 1778

1st Engrossment - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to veterans; providing for placement in the 
  1.3             Capitol of a plaque commemorating the soldiers who 
  1.4             participated in the Bataan Death March.  
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [PLAQUE; BATAAN DEATH MARCH.] 
  1.7      Subject to approval by the Capitol Area Architectural and 
  1.8   Planning Board, a plaque must be placed in the Capitol rotunda 
  1.9   or some other appropriate place in the Capitol to honor the 
  1.10  soldiers of the 194th Light Tank Battalion and other persons 
  1.11  who, in April of 1942, were ordered to surrender and forced by 
  1.12  the enemy to march up to ten days with no food or water in what 
  1.13  has become known as the Bataan Death March.  The commissioner of 
  1.14  veterans affairs shall ensure placement of the plaque and may 
  1.15  accept contributions from nonstate sources to pay for the plaque 
  1.16  and its placement.