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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 10076 

To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that the prohibition against 

interment or memorialization in the National Cemetery Administration 

or Arlington National Cemetery of persons committing Federal or State 

capital crimes is consistently carried out, to direct the Secretary of 

Veterans Affairs to disinter the remains of George E. Siple from 

Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 29, 2024 

Mr. PERRY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Veterans’ Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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 

A BILL 

To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that the 

prohibition against interment or memorialization in the 

National Cemetery Administration or Arlington National 

Cemetery of persons committing Federal or State capital 

crimes is consistently carried out, to direct the Secretary 

of Veterans Affairs to disinter the remains of George 

E. Siple from Indiantown Gap National Cemetery, and 

for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bertie’s Respect for 

3 National Cemeteries Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AGAINST INTERMENT OR MEMORI5 ALIZATION IN THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AD6 MINISTRATION OR ARLINGTON NATIONAL 

7 CEMETERY OF PERSONS COMMITTING FED8 ERAL OR STATE CAPITAL CRIMES. 

9 (a) RESPONSIBILITY OF APPROPRIATE FEDERAL OF10 FICIAL.—Section 2411(a)(2) of title 38, United States 

11 Code, is amended— 

12 (1) by striking ‘‘In the case’’ and inserting ‘‘(A) 

13 Except as provided by subparagraph (B), in the 

14 case’’; and 

15 (2) by adding at the end the following new sub16 paragraph: 

17 ‘‘(B) The appropriate Federal official shall take every 

18 reasonable action, including by searching public records, 

19 to ensure that a person who will be interred in a cemetery 

20 in the National Cemetery Administration or in Arlington 

21 National Cemetery is not ineligible for such interment by 

22 reason of this section.’’. 

23 (b) AUTHORITY TO DISINTER.—Section 2(c) of the 

24 Alicia Dawn Koehl Respect for National Cemeteries Act 

25 (38 U.S.C. 2411 note) is amended— 


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1 (1) by striking ‘‘this section’’ and inserting 

2 ‘‘subsection (a)’’; and 

3 (2) by inserting after ‘‘Arlington National Cem4 etery’’ the following: ‘‘on or after the date of the en5 actment of such section 2411 and the amendment 

6 made by subsection (b) shall apply with respect to 

7 any such interment or memorialization conducted’’. 

8 SEC. 3. DISINTERMENT OF REMAINS OF GEORGE E. SIPLE 

9 FROM INDIANTOWN GAP NATIONAL CEME10 TERY. 

11 (a) DISINTERMENT OF REMAINS.—The Secretary of 

12 Veterans Affairs shall disinter the remains of George E. 

13 Siple from Indiantown Gap National Cemetery. 

14 (b) NOTIFICATION OF NEXT-OF-KIN.—The Secretary 

15 of Veterans Affairs shall— 

16 (1) notify the next-of-kin of record for George 

17 E. Siple of the impending disinterment of his re18 mains; and 

19 (2) upon disinterment, relinquish the remains 

20 to the next-of-kin of record for George E. Siple or, 

21 if the next-of-kin of record for George E. Siple is 

22 unavailable, arrange for an appropriate disposition 

23 of the remains. 

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