Title: Chuck Osier Burial Benefits Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Chuck Osier Burial Benefits Act
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs, upon request and at U.S. expense, to furnish to a deceased individual in lieu a headstone or marker: (1) an urn to signify the individual's veteran status, in which such individual's remains may be placed at private expense; or (2) a commemorative plaque signifying the individual's veteran status.
A "deceased individual" is an individual: (1) who served in the Armed Forces on or after April 6, 1917; (2) who is eligible for a headstone or marker or would be so eligible but for the date of the individual's death; and (3) whose remains were cremated and placed in a site of interment or inurnment other than a national cemetery, a state veterans' cemetery, a tribal cemetery, or a private cemetery.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4338 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4338

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to furnish urns for the remains of certain veterans 
       whose remains are placed in non-traditional resting sites.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 9, 2017

  Ms. Tenney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to furnish urns for the remains of certain veterans 
       whose remains are placed in non-traditional resting sites.

    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 ``Chuck Osier Burial Benefits Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS PROVISION OF URNS FOR REMAINS OF 
              CERTAIN VETERANS WHOSE REMAINS ARE PLACED IN NON-
              TRADITIONAL RESTING SITES.

    Section 2306(d) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(6)(A) In lieu of furnishing a headstone or marker under this 
subsection to a deceased individual described in subparagraph (B), the 
Secretary shall furnish, upon request and at the expense of the United 
States--
            ``(i) an urn made of any material to signify the 
        individual's status as a veteran, in which the remains of such 
        individual may be placed at private expense; or
            ``(ii) a commemorative plaque signifying the individual's 
        status as a veteran.
    ``(B) A deceased individual described in this subsection is an 
individual--
            ``(i) who served in the Armed Forces on or after April 6, 
        1917;
            ``(ii) who is eligible for a headstone or marker furnished 
        under paragraph (1) (or would be so eligible but for the date 
        of the death of the individual); and
            ``(iii) whose remains were cremated and are placed in a 
        non-traditional resting site.
    ``(C) In this paragraph, the term `non-traditional resting site' 
means a site of interment or inurnment other than a national cemetery, 
a State veterans' cemetery, a tribal cemetery, or a private 
cemetery.''.
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