1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Unclaimed Veterans Burial Benefit Correction Act of 2020”.
Unclaimed Veterans Burial Benefit Correction Act of 2020
A BILL
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 certain State and tribal veterans’ cemeteries, and for other purposes.
2. Transportation of deceased veterans to certain veterans’ cemeteries
In general— Section 2308(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended—
in the first sentence, by striking “in a national cemetery” and inserting “in a covered cemetery”; and
in the second sentence, by striking “to the national cemetery” and inserting “to the covered cemetery”.
Covered cemetery defined— Section 2308 of such title is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
“(c) Covered cemetery defined—In this section, the term covered cemetery has the meaning given such term in section 2306(f)(2) of this title.”
Conforming Amendment— Section 2308 of such title is amended in the section heading by adding at the end the following: “or a veterans’ cemetery”.
Clerical amendment— The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 23 of such title is amended by striking the item relating to section 2308 and inserting the following new item: