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 113 STAT. 626 PUBLIC LAW 106-65 —OCT. 5, 1999 Notification. (A) by striking "HONOR GUARD DETAILS. — " and inserting " FUNERAL HONORS DETAILS.—(1)"; (B) by striking "an honor guard detail" and inserting "a funeral honors detail"; and (C) by striking "not less than three persons" and all that follows and inserting "two or more persons.". (2) Subsection (c) of such section is amended— (A) by striking "(c) PERSONS FORMING HONOR GUARDS. — An honor guard detail" and inserting "(2) At least two members of the funeral honors detail for a veteran's funeral shall be members of the armed forces, at least one of whom shall be a member of the armed force of which the veteran was a member. The remainder of the detail"; and (B) by striking the second sentence and inserting the following: "Each member of the armed forces in the detail shall wear the uniform of the member's armed force while serving in the detail.". (c) CEREMONY, SUPPORT, AND WAIVER.— Such section is further amended— (1) by redesignating subsections (d), (e), and (f) as subsections (f), (g), and (h), respectively; and (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsections: "(c) CEREMONY.— ^A funeral honors detail shall, at a minimum, perform at the funeral a ceremony that includes the folding of a United States flag and presentation of the flag to the veteran's family and the pla)ang of Taps. Unless a bugler is a member of the detail, the funeral honors detail shall play a recorded version of Taps using audio equipment which the detail shall provide if adequate audio equipment is not otherwise available for use at the funeral. "(d) SUPPORT.—To provide a funeral honors detail under this section, the Secretary of a military department may provide the following: "(1) Transportation, or reimbursement for transportation, and expenses for a person who participates in the funeral honors detail and is not a member of the armed forces or an employee of the United States. "(2) Materiel, equipment, and training for members of a veterans organization or other organization referred to in subsection (b)(2). "(e) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—(1) The Secretary of Defense may waive any requirement provided in or pursuant to this section when the Secretary considers it necessary to do so to meet the requirements of war, national emergency, or a contingency operation or other military requirements. The authority to maJie such a waiver may not be delegated to an official of a military department other than the Secretary of the military department and may not be delegated within the Office of the Secretary of Defense to an official at a level below Under Secretary of Defense. "(2) Before or promptly after granting a waiver under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall transmit a notification of the waiver to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives.". (d) REGULATIONS. —Subsection (f) of such section, as redesignated by subsection (d)(1), is amended to read as follows:

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