Section 1 Transportation of deceased veterans to veterans’ cemeteries
in the section heading, by adding at the end the following: “or a veterans’ cemetery”; and
in subsection (a)—
by striking “cemetery.” and inserting “cemetery or a covered veterans’ cemetery.”; and
by striking “to the national cemetery” and inserting “to the national cemetery or the covered veterans’ cemetery, as the case may be,”; and
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.”
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: