Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Charles Duncan Buried with Honor Act of 2016”.
Charles Duncan Buried with Honor Act of 2016
AN ACT
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish caskets and urns for burial in cemeteries of States and tribal organizations of veterans without next of kin or sufficient resources to provide for caskets or urns, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Caskets and urns for burial of certain veterans in cemeteries of States and tribal organizations
Section 2306(f) of title 38, United States Code, is amended—
in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “for burial in a national cemetery of a deceased veteran” and inserting “for burial of a deceased veteran in a national cemetery or in a veterans cemetery of a State or tribal organization for which the Department has provided a grant under section 2408 of this title”; and
in paragraph (2), by striking “the burial of the veteran in a national cemetery” and inserting “such burial”.