Title: VA MISSION Act of 2018
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Veterans Cemetery Benefit Correction Act
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to provide outer burial receptacles for veterans' remains buried in open cemeteries administered by the National Park Service.
The use of outer burial receptacles in such cemeteries shall be in accordance with regulations or procedures approved by Interior.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2372 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2372

    To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide outer burial 
    receptacles for remains buried in National Parks, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 5, 2018

 Mr. Isakson (for himself, Mr. Tester, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Alexander, Mr. 
 Daines, and Mr. Heller) 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 provide outer burial 
    receptacles for remains buried in National Parks, 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 ``Veterans Cemetery Benefit Correction 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROVISION OF OUTER BURIAL RECEPTACLES FOR REMAINS BURIED IN 
              NATIONAL PARKS.

    Section 2306(e) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by inserting ``(A)'' before ``The Secretary of 
                Veterans'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (A), as designated by 
                subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, by striking ``The 
                Secretary of the Army'' and inserting the following:
    ``(B) The Secretary of the Army''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following new 
                subparagraph:
    ``(C) The Secretary of the Interior shall provide an outer burial 
receptacle for each such a grave in an open national cemetery 
administered by the National Park Service.'';
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by striking ``or in the Arlington National 
                Cemetery'' and inserting ``, in the Arlington National 
                Cemetery, or in a national cemetery administered by the 
                National Park Service''; and
                    (B) by striking ``or Secretary of the Army'' and 
                inserting ``, the Secretary of the Army, or the 
                Secretary of the Interior'';
            (3) in paragraph (3)(B)(ii), by striking ``or, with respect 
        to Arlington National Cemetery, the Secretary of the Army'' and 
        inserting ``or the Secretary of the Army with respect to 
        Arlington National Cemetery or the Secretary of the Interior 
        with respect to a national cemetery administered by the 
        National Park Service''; and
            (4) in paragraph (4), by striking ``or, with respect to 
        Arlington National Cemetery, the Secretary of the Army'' and 
        inserting ``or the Secretary of the Army with respect to 
        Arlington National Cemetery or the Secretary of the Interior 
        with respect to a national cemetery administered by the 
        National Park Service''.
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