[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2807 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2807

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the applicability of 
  the authority to reconsider decisions of the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs or the Secretary of the Army to inter the remains or honor the 
   memory of a person in a national cemetery, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 16, 2025

Mr. Cornyn (for himself, Ms. Hirono, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Fetterman, Mr. 
Scott of Florida, and Mr. Schiff) introduced the following bill; which 
   was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to modify the applicability of 
  the authority to reconsider decisions of the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs or the Secretary of the Army to inter the remains or honor the 
   memory of a person in a national cemetery, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Restoring the Sanctity of Public 
Entombments, Cemeteries, and Tributes Act of 2025'' or the ``RESPECT 
Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. APPLICABILITY OF AUTHORITY TO RECONSIDER DECISIONS TO INTER THE 
              REMAINS OR HONOR THE MEMORY OF A PERSON IN A NATIONAL 
              CEMETERY.

    (a) In General.--Section 2411 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (d)(1), by inserting ``made on or after 
        June 18, 1973,'' after ``reconsider a decision''; and
            (2) in subsections (b)(4)(A), (b)(5)(A), (d)(2)(A)(ii), and 
        (e)(1)(B), by striking ``to be a tier III sex offender for 
        purposes of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act 
        (34 U.S.C. 20901 et seq.)'' each place it appears and inserting 
        ``to meet the definition of a tier III sex offender under 
        section 111 of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification 
        Act (34 U.S.C. 20911)''.
    (b) Conforming Repeal.--Section 2 of the Alicia Dawn Koehl Respect 
for National Cemeteries Act (Public Law 113-65) is amended by striking 
subsection (c).
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