[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6060 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6060

   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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 2020

 Mr. Watkins introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 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.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans Burial Benefit Correction 
Act''.

SEC. 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--
            (1) 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
            (2) 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.''.
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