Title: Veterans Burial Benefit Correction Act of 2020
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Veterans Burial Benefit Correction Act of 2020
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide an outer burial receptacle (i.e., a container for a casket) for new graves in cemeteries funded by a grant to a state or a tribal organization under the Veterans Cemetery Grants Program.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4419 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4419

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to provide outer burial receptacles for each new grave 
   in cemeteries that are the subjects of certain grants made by the 
         Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 4, 2020

 Mr. Rounds (for himself, Mr. Cassidy, and Mrs. Blackburn) 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 direct the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to provide outer burial receptacles for each new grave 
   in cemeteries that are the subjects of certain grants made by the 
         Secretary of Veterans Affairs, 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 Burial Benefit Correction 
Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. OUTER BURIAL RECEPTACLES FOR EACH NEW GRAVE IN CEMETERIES THAT 
              ARE THE SUBJECTS OF CERTAIN GRANTS MADE BY THE SECRETARY 
              OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    Section 2306(e) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting ``, or in a cemetery 
        that is the subject of a grant to a State or a tribal 
        organization under section 2408 of this title,'' after 
        ``National Cemetery Administration''; and
            (2) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following 
        new paragraph (2):
    ``(2)(A) The use of outer burial receptacles in a cemetery under 
the control of the National Cemetery Administration or in a cemetery 
that is the subject of a grant to a State or a tribal organization 
under section 2408 of this title shall be in accordance with 
regulations or procedures approved by the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs.
    ``(B) The use of outer burial receptacles in Arlington National 
Cemetery shall be in accordance with regulations or procedures approved 
by the Secretary of the Army.
    ``(C) The use of outer burial receptacles in a national cemetery 
administered by the National Park Service shall be in accordance with 
regulations or procedures approved by the Secretary of the Interior.''.
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