To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand burial benefits for veterans who die while receiving hospital care or medical services under the Veterans Choice Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay the actual burial and funeral costs (up to a specified limit) for veterans who die in an institution where they were receiving hospital care or medical services under the Veterans Choice Program.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5416 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5416

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand burial benefits for 
  veterans who die while receiving hospital care or medical services 
    under the Veterans Choice Program of the Department of Veterans 
                    Affairs, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 2016

 Mr. Lamborn 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 expand burial benefits for 
  veterans who die while receiving hospital care or medical services 
    under the Veterans Choice Program of the Department of Veterans 
                    Affairs, 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. EXPANSION OF BURIAL BENEFIT.

    Section 2303(a)(2)(B) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in clause (ii), by striking ``or'';
            (2) in clause (iii), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new clause:
                    ``(iv) hospital care or medical services under 
                section 101 of the Veterans Access, Choice, and 
                Accountability Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-146; 38 
                U.S.C. 1701 note).''.
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