1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Veterans Burial Benefit Correction Act”.
Veterans Burial Benefit Correction Act
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide outer burial receptacles for each new grave in cemeteries that are the subjects of certain grants made by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
2. Outer burial receptacles for each new grave in cemeteries that are the subjects of certain grants made by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Section 2306(e) of title 38, United States Code, is amended—
in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting “, or in a cemetery that is the subject of a grant to a State or a tribal organization under section 2408 of this title,” after “National Cemetery Administration”; and
by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following new paragraph (2):
“(2) The use of outer burial receptacles in—
“(A) a cemetery under the control of the National Cemetery Administration or in a cemetery that is the subject of a grant to a State or a tribal organization under section 2408 of this title shall be in accordance with regulations or procedures approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; and
“(B) Arlington National Cemetery shall be in accordance with regulations or procedures approved by the Secretary of the Army.”