To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay costs relating to the transportation of certain deceased veterans to veterans' cemeteries owned by a State or tribal organization.

Bill: 114-hr-4759
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2016-03-16
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals

Transportation costs

Veterans' organizations and recognition
Latest action: action_date: 2016-05-11
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by Voice Vote .

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-03-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay the burial transportation costs of certain deceased veterans to a state- or tribal-owned veterans' cemetery.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4759 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 16, 2016 Mr. Miller of Florida 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 pay costs relating to the transportation of certain deceased veterans to veterans’ cemeteries owned by a State or tribal organization.

1. Transportation of deceased veterans to veterans’ cemeteries (a) In general Section 2308 of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) in the section heading, by adding at the end the following: or a veterans’ cemetery ; and (2) in subsection (a)— (A) by striking cemetery. and inserting cemetery or a covered veterans’ cemetery. ; and (B) by striking to the national cemetery and inserting to the national cemetery or the covered veterans’ cemetery, as the case may be, ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection: (c) covered veterans’ cemetery defined In this section, the term covered veterans’ cemetery means, with respect to a deceased veteran described in subsection (b), a veterans’ cemetery owned by a State or a tribal organization (as defined in section 3765(4) of this title) in which the deceased veteran is eligible to be buried. . (b) Clerical amendment The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by striking the item relating to section 2308 and inserting the following new item: 2308. Transportation of deceased veterans to a national cemetery or a veterans’ cemetery. .