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Calendar No. 32 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1381 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MARCH 6, 2019 
Received; read the first time 
MARCH 7, 2019 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to take actions 
necessary to ensure that certain individuals may update 
the burn pit registry with a registered individual’s cause 
of death, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Burn Pit Registry En-
hancement Act’’. 
SEC. 2. BURN PIT REGISTRY UPDATES. 
(a) INDIVIDUALS ELIGIBLE TO UPDATE.— 
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(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs shall take actions nec-
essary to ensure that the burn pit registry may be 
updated with the cause of death of a deceased reg-
istered individual by— 
(A) an individual designated by such de-
ceased registered individual; or 
(B) if no such individual is designated, an 
immediate family member of such deceased reg-
istered individual. 
(2) DESIGNATION.—The Secretary shall pro-
vide, with respect to the burn pit registry, a process 
by which a registered individual may make a des-
ignation for purposes of paragraph (1)(A). 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘burn pit registry’’ means the 
registry established under section 201 of the Dig-
nified Burial and Other Veterans’ Benefits Improve-
ment Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–260; 38 U.S.C. 
527 note). 
(2) The term ‘‘immediate family member’’, with 
respect to a deceased individual, means— 
(A) the spouse, parent, brother, sister, or 
adult child of the individual; 
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(B) an adult person to whom the indi-
vidual stands in loco parentis; or 
(C) any other adult person— 
(i) living in the household of the indi-
vidual at the time of the death of the indi-
vidual; and 
(ii) related to the individual by blood 
or marriage. 
(3) The term ‘‘registered individual’’ means an 
individual registered with the burn pit registry. 
Passed the House of Representatives March 5, 
2019. 
Attest: 
CHERYL L. JOHNSON, 
Clerk. 
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Calendar No. 32 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1381 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to take 
actions necessary to ensure that certain individ-
uals may update the burn pit registry with a reg-
istered individual’s cause of death, and for other 
purposes. 
MARCH 7, 2019 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
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