HF 3095

1st Engrossment - 80th Legislature (1997 - 1998) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to veterans; designating a date in February 
  1.3             as Chaplains Day in honor of four United States army 
  1.4             chaplains who sacrificed their lives at sea for other 
  1.5             service members; proposing coding for new law in 
  1.6             Minnesota Statutes, chapter 10. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  [10.56] [FOUR CHAPLAINS DAY.] 
  1.9      February 3 is designated Four Chaplains Day in honor of the 
  1.10  four United States army chaplains, George L. Fox, Alexander D. 
  1.11  Goode, Clark V. Poling, and John P. Washington, who sacrificed 
  1.12  their lives to save the lives of other service personnel while 
  1.13  serving on the U.S.S. Dorchester, a United States army troop 
  1.14  transport that was sunk off the coast of Greenland on February 
  1.15  3, 1943.  Each year the governor shall issue a proclamation of 
  1.16  this observance. 
  1.17     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  1.18     Section 1 is effective the day following enactment.