Title: A bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to seek to enter into an agreement with the city of Vallejo, California, for the transfer of Mare Island Naval Cemetery in Vallejo, California, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to enter into an agreement with the city of Vallejo, California, for the transfer to the VA of Mare Island Naval Cemetery in Vallejo, California, to be maintained as a national shrine.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2983 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2983

 To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to seek to enter into an 
  agreement with the city of Vallejo, California, for the transfer of 
   Mare Island Naval Cemetery in Vallejo, California, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 5, 2019

Mrs. Feinstein introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to seek to enter into an 
  agreement with the city of Vallejo, California, for the transfer of 
   Mare Island Naval Cemetery in Vallejo, California, 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. TRANSFER OF MARE ISLAND NAVAL CEMETERY TO SECRETARY OF 
              VETERANS AFFAIRS FOR MAINTENANCE BY NATIONAL CEMETERY 
              ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) Agreement.--Beginning on the date that is 180 days after the 
date on which the Secretary submits the report required by subsection 
(c)(1), the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall seek to enter into an 
agreement with the city of Vallejo, California, under which the city of 
Vallejo shall transfer to the Secretary all right, title, and interest 
in the Mare Island Naval Cemetery in Vallejo, California, at no cost to 
the Secretary. The Secretary shall seek to enter into such agreement 
before the date that is one year after the date on which such report is 
submitted.
    (b) Maintenance by National Cemetery Administration.--If the Mare 
Island Naval Cemetery is transferred to the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs pursuant to subsection (a), the National Cemetery 
Administration shall maintain the cemetery as a national shrine.
    (c) Report.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the 
        Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the Committee 
        on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives a report 
        on the feasibility and advisability of exercising the authority 
        granted by subsection (a).
            (2) Contents.--The report submitted under paragraph (1) 
        shall include the following:
                    (A) An assessment of the feasibility and 
                advisability of exercising the authority granted by 
                subsection (a).
                    (B) An estimate of the costs, including both direct 
                and indirect costs, that the Department of Veterans 
                Affairs would incur by exercising such authority.
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