Title: A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize States and tribal organizations that receive grants from the National Cemetery Administration for establishment, expansion, or improvement of a veterans' cemeteries to use amounts of such grants for State and tribal organization cemetery personnel to train at the training center of the National Cemetery Administration, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill expands the costs that the Department of Veterans Affairs may take into account in determining the amount of a grant awarded for the establishment, expansion, or improvement of a state-owned veterans' cemetery. Specifically the bill allows a grant to include training costs, including travel expenses, associated with attendance at training provided by the National Cemetery Administration.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2096 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2096

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize States and tribal 
     organizations that receive grants from the National Cemetery 
   Administration for establishment, expansion, or improvement of a 
veterans' cemeteries to use amounts of such grants for State and tribal 
organization cemetery personnel to train at the training center of the 
       National Cemetery Administration, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 11, 2019

Mr. Boozman (for himself and Mr. Tester) 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 authorize States and tribal 
     organizations that receive grants from the National Cemetery 
   Administration for establishment, expansion, or improvement of a 
veterans' cemeteries to use amounts of such grants for State and tribal 
organization cemetery personnel to train at the training center of the 
       National Cemetery Administration, 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. TRAINING OF STATE VETERANS CEMETERY PERSONNEL BY NATIONAL 
              CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) In General.--Section 2408(b)(1) of title 38, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) by striking ``and (ii) the cost'' and inserting 
                ``(ii) the cost''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``; and (iii) training costs, 
                including travel expenses, associated with attendance 
                at training provided by the National Cemetery 
                Administration'' before the semicolon; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B)--
                    (A) by striking ``and (ii) the cost'' and inserting 
                ``(ii) the cost''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``; and (iii) training costs, 
                including travel expenses, associated with attendance 
                at training provided by the National Cemetery 
                Administration'' before the period.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to a grant awarded under section 2408 of such title 
on, before, or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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