{"id":22794,"date":"2011-04-02T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T18:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22794"},"modified":"2011-04-02T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T18:58:46","slug":"iowa-senate-retools-the-stolen-valor-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22794","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Senate retools the &#8220;Stolen Valor &#8221; Act."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Senate is working on creating a Bill, <em>S.F. 397<\/em>, that would make it a <a href=\"http:\/\/easterniowagovernment.com\/2011\/03\/21\/senate-cracks-down-on-military-hero-impersonators\/\">misdemeanor <\/a>with fines up to $1,875 dollars and up to a year in prison. Sen. Dennis Black, D-Grinnell address the States Bill against the original 2005 Act. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt does not really go as far as I\u2019d like but constitutionally I think it goes as far as we can,\u201d Black said before senators voted 48-0 to approve an amended version of Senate File 397 and shipped it to the Iowa House for consideration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is important since that more people<del datetime=\"2011-04-02T17:00:59+00:00\"> may <\/del>will  to abuse the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariontoday.org\/times\/article.php?id=2040\">new car license plate <\/a>honoring those who have CIBs, CABs, CMBs, and CARs. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Legislation that cracks down on unauthorized use of military decorations and medals also unanimously passed the Senate. Senate File 397 has been dubbed &#8220;Stolen Valor&#8221; because it protects those who&#8217;ve answered the call to military service from theft of the honor they&#8217;ve earned.<\/p>\n<p>This bill makes it a serious misdemeanor to impersonate a decorated military veteran to deceive another person with the intent to receive monetary gain, such as a job, promotion or political office.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these bills now go to the House for further consideration. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The State Government of Texas will be looking into a similar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/default\/article\/Proposed-law-could-put-a-stop-to-invalid-valor-1319379.php\">Bill 431 <\/a>in the near future. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt&#8217;s easy to fool the general populace,\u201d says McEntyre. \u201cThey&#8217;re not going to question you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why McEntyre doesn&#8217;t want to let the issue rest. Neither should lawmakers. The proposal next goes before the House Defense and Veterans Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the right amount of public awareness, it might make people (who are lying about a service record) think and realize that what (they&#8217;re) doing is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople think this is a victimless crime,\u201d McEntyre said. \u201c<strong>But (the liars) are victimizing all of us in our good nature, our willingness to help other service members.<\/strong>\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is something that many people do not understand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Senate is working on creating a Bill, S.F. 397, that would make it a misdemeanor &hellip; <a title=\"Iowa Senate retools the &#8220;Stolen Valor &#8221; Act.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22794\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iowa Senate retools the &#8220;Stolen Valor &#8221; Act.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,18,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-support-the-troops","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}