To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish headstones and markers for certain deceased veterans buried in veterans' cemeteries of Indian tribes.

Bill: 113-hr-2039
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Titus, Dina [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2013-05-16
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals

Indian lands and resources rights

Veterans' pensions and compensation
Latest action: action_date: 2013-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-05-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), upon request, to furnish headstones or markers for certain veterans buried in a veterans' cemetery on land owned by or held in trust for a tribal organization.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2039 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 16, 2013 Ms. Titus (for herself, Mrs. Kirkpatrick , Mr. Cole , Mrs. Napolitano , Ms. McCollum , Mrs. Christensen , Mr. Cárdenas , and Mr. Takano ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs A BILL To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish headstones and markers for certain deceased veterans buried in veterans’ cemeteries of Indian tribes.

1. Headstones and markers for placement in tribal veterans’ cemeteries Section 2306 of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(4), by inserting or in a veterans’ cemetery on land owned by or held in trust for a tribal organization (as defined in section 3765(4) of this title) after State ; and (2) in subsection (b)(1), by inserting a veterans’ cemetery on land owned by or held in trust for a tribal organization, after a veterans’ cemetery owned by a State, .