Title: Gerald’s Law Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Gerald's Law Act
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide a burial and funeral allowance for a veteran who dies from a non-service-connected disability in a home or other setting at which the veteran was receiving VA hospice care (if such care was directly preceded by VA hospital or nursing home care).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4922 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4922

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a burial allowance 
 for certain veterans who die at home while in receipt of hospice care 
            furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 22, 2022

  Mr. Boozman (for himself, Mr. Peters, Mr. Rounds, and Mr. Manchin) 
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 provide a burial allowance 
 for certain veterans who die at home while in receipt of hospice care 
            furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

    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 ``Gerald's Law Act''.

SEC. 2. BURIAL ALLOWANCE FOR CERTAIN VETERANS WHO DIE AT HOME WHILE IN 
              RECEIPT OF HOSPICE CARE FURNISHED BY DEPARTMENT OF 
              VETERANS AFFAIRS.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (a)(2)(A) of section 2303 of title 38, 
United States Code, as amended by section 2202(a)(3)(B)(ii) of the 
Johnny Isakson and David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits 
Improvement Act of 2020 (Public Law 116-315; 134 Stat. 4984), is 
further amended--
            (1) in clause (i), by striking ``; or'' and inserting a 
        semicolon;
            (2) in clause (ii)--
                    (A) in subclause (II), by striking ``; or'' and 
                inserting a semicolon; and
                    (B) in subclause (III), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new clause:
                    ``(iii) a home or other setting at which the 
                deceased veteran was, at the time of death, receiving 
                hospice care pursuant to section 1717(a) of this title 
                if such care was directly preceded by the Secretary 
                furnishing to the veteran hospital care or nursing home 
                care as described in subclause (I), (II), or (III) of 
                clause (ii).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if included in the enactment of the Johnny Isakson and 
David P. Roe, M.D. Veterans Health Care and Benefits Improvement Act of 
2020 (Public Law 116-315).
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