Title: Honoring Veterans’ Families Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Honoring Veterans' Families Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide inscriptions for deceased spouses and children on certain headstones furnished by the VA.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1126 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1126

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to provide inscriptions for spouses and children on 
       certain headstones and markers furnished by the Secretary.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 8, 2019

Mr. LaMalfa (for himself, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Jones, Mr. Allen, Mr. Posey, 
   Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Norman, Mr. 
  Banks, and Mr. Cunningham) 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 provide inscriptions for spouses and children on 
       certain headstones and markers furnished by the Secretary.

    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 ``Honoring Veterans' Families Act''.

SEC. 2. PROVISION OF INSCRIPTIONS FOR SPOUSES AND CHILDREN ON CERTAIN 
              HEADSTONES AND MARKERS FURNISHED BY THE SECRETARY OF 
              VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) In General.--Section 2306 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(i)(1) In the case of an individual for whom the Secretary has 
furnished a headstone or marker for the unmarked grave of the 
individual in a non-VA cemetery under subsection (a) or for whom the 
Secretary has furnished a headstone or marker under subsection (d), the 
Secretary may, if feasible and upon request, replace the headstone or 
marker to add an inscription for the surviving spouse or eligible 
dependent child of such individual following the death of the surviving 
spouse or eligible dependent child.
    ``(2) If the spouse or eligible dependent child of an individual 
referred to in paragraph (1) predeceases the individual, the Secretary 
may, if feasible and upon request, include an inscription for the 
spouse or dependent child on the headstone or marker furnished for the 
individual under subsection (a) or (d).
    ``(3) In this section, the term `non-VA cemetery' means--
            ``(A) a veterans' cemetery owned by a State; or
            ``(B) a State, local, tribal, or private cemetery.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (i) of section 2306 of title 38, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (a) shall apply with respect 
to an individual who dies on or after October 1, 2018.
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