Title: Protecting our Veterans’ Memories Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Protecting our Veterans' Memories Act
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to pay a state, state agency, or political subdivision of a state $525 as a plot or internment allowance for spouses and children of veterans who are buried in a cemetery owned by the state, agency, or political subdivision. Specifically, the bill requires the VA to pay a plot or internment allowance for spouses, surviving spouses (including if they have remarried), or minor children (those under 21 or under 23 if they are attending an approved educational institution). The VA may pay the allowance for unmarried adult children of certain veterans.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5930 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5930

   To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to provide a plot allowance for spouses and children 
    of veterans buried in State cemeteries, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 9, 2021

   Mr. Kim of New Jersey (for himself and Mr. Kahele) 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 direct the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to provide a plot allowance for spouses and children 
    of veterans buried in State cemeteries, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting our Veterans' Memories 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS PLOT ALLOWANCE FOR SPOUSES AND 
              CHILDREN OF VETERANS BURIED IN STATE CEMETERIES.

    (a) In General.--Section 2303 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d);
            (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
        subsection (c):
    ``(c)(1) In the case of an individual described in paragraph (2) 
who is buried in a cemetery that is owned by a State or by an agency or 
political subdivision of a State, the Secretary shall pay to such 
State, agency, or political subdivision the sum of $525 as a plot or 
interment allowance for such individual.
    ``(2) An individual described in this paragraph is a spouse, 
surviving spouse (which for purposes of this subsection includes a 
surviving spouse who had a subsequent remarriage), minor child (which 
for purposes of this subsection includes a child under 21 years of age, 
or under 23 years of age if pursuing a course of instruction at an 
approved educational institution), or, in the discretion of the 
Secretary, unmarried adult child of any of person described in 
paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), or (7) of section 2402 of this title.''; 
and
            (3) in subsection (d), as so redesignated, by striking 
        ``subsection (b)'' and inserting ``subsections (b) and (c)''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and apply with 
respect to a death occurring on or after such date.
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