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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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”.