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

Summary:
Chuck Osier Burial Benefits Act
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to furnish an urn or commemorative plaque in lieu of a headstone or marker to eligible deceased individuals if requested. Specifically, the United States must pay for an urn (in which the remains of such individual may be placed at private expense) or a commemorative plaque signifying the individual's status as a veteran.
Eligible deceased individuals are those who

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5639 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5639

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to furnish urns for the remains of certain veterans 
     whose cremated remains are not interred in certain cemeteries.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 16, 2020

Mr. Brindisi (for himself and Mr. Waltz) 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 cremated remains are not interred in certain cemeteries.

    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 CREMATED REMAINS ARE NOT INTERRED 
              IN CERTAIN CEMETERIES.

    Section 2306 of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (h) and (i) as subsections 
        (i) and (j), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (g) the following new 
        subsection (h):
    ``(h)(1) In lieu of furnishing a headstone or marker under this 
section to a deceased individual described in paragraph (3), the 
Secretary shall furnish, upon request and at the expense of the United 
States--
            ``(A) 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
            ``(B) a commemorative plaque signifying the individual's 
        status as a veteran.
    ``(2) If the Secretary provides an urn or commemorative plaque for 
a veteran under paragraph (1), the Secretary may not provide for such 
veteran--
            ``(A) a headstone or marker under this section; or
            ``(B) any burial benefit under section 2402 of this title.
    ``(3) A deceased individual described in this paragraph is an 
individual--
            ``(A) who served in the Armed Forces on or after April 6, 
        1917;
            ``(B) who is eligible for a headstone or marker furnished 
        under subsection (d) (or would be so eligible but for the date 
        of the death of the individual); and
            ``(C) whose remains were cremated and not interred in a 
        national cemetery, a State veterans' cemetery, a tribal 
        cemetery, or a private cemetery.''.
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