[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4759 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4759

 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.


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                    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

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 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.''.
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