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To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay costs relating to the transportation of certain deceased veterans to veterans’ cemeteries owned by a State or tribal organization.

H.R. 4759 · 114th Congress · Mar 16, 2016 · Lineage

A BILL

Section 1 Transportation of deceased veterans to veterans’ cemeteries

(a)
In general— Section 2308 of title 38, United States Code, is amended—
(1)
in the section heading, by adding at the end the following: “or a veterans’ cemetery”; and
(2)
in subsection (a)—
(A)
by striking “cemetery.” and inserting “cemetery or a covered veterans’ cemetery.”; and
(B)
by striking “to the national cemetery” and inserting “to the national cemetery or the covered veterans’ cemetery, as the case may be,”; and
(3)
by adding at the end the following new subsection:

“(c) covered veterans’ cemetery defined—In this section, the term covered veterans’ cemetery means, with respect to a deceased veteran described in subsection (b), a veterans’ cemetery owned by a State or a tribal organization (as defined in section 3765(4) of this title) in which the deceased veteran is eligible to be buried.”

(b)
Clerical amendment— The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by striking the item relating to section 2308 and inserting the following new item: