Servicemember Family Burial Act

Servicemember Family Burial Act

This bill revises eligibility for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-provided memorial headstones and markers that commemorate individuals whose remains are unavailable. The bill makes eligible the spouse or eligible dependent child of a member of the U.S. Armed Forces serving on active duty under other than dishonorable conditions at the time of the spouse's or child's death.

The spouse, minor child, and, in the VA's discretion, unmarried adult child of such a member of the Armed Forces may be buried in any open national cemetery under the control of the National Cemetery Administration.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4335 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4335

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for headstones and 
markers for, and interment in national cemeteries of, deceased spouses 
and dependent children of members of the Armed Forces serving on active 
                     duty, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 9, 2017

  Mr. Correa 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 provide for headstones and 
markers for, and interment in national cemeteries of, deceased spouses 
and dependent children of members of the Armed Forces serving on active 
                     duty, 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 ``Servicemember Family Burial Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS PROVISION OF HEADSTONES AND 
              MARKERS FOR, AND INTERMENT IN NATIONAL CEMETERIES OF, 
              SPOUSES AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED 
              FORCES SERVING ON ACTIVE DUTY.

    (a) Headstones and Markers.--Section 2306(b)(2) of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``, or the spouse of 
        a member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty under 
        conditions other than dishonorable, as shown by a statement 
        from a general court-martial convening authority, at the time 
        of the spouse's death'' after ``veteran''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``, or the eligible 
        dependent child of a member of the Armed Forces serving on 
        active duty under conditions other than dishonorable, as shown 
        by a statement from a general court-martial convening 
        authority, at the time of the child's death'' after 
        ``veteran''.
    (b) Interment in National Cemeteries.--Section 2402(a)(5) of such 
title is amended by inserting ``, and the spouse, minor child, and, in 
the discretion of the Secretary, unmarried adult child of a member of 
the Armed Forces serving on active duty under conditions other than 
dishonorable, as shown by a statement from a general court-martial 
convening authority, at the time of the spouse's or child's death'' 
after ``paragraph (7)''.
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