[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[S. 2547 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2547

To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the memorialization 
at the columbarium at Arlington National Cemetery of veterans who have 
       donated their remains to science, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 2, 1998

   Mr. Robb introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the memorialization 
at the columbarium at Arlington National Cemetery of veterans who have 
       donated their remains to science, 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. MEMORIALIZATION AT COLUMBARIUM AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL 
              CEMETERY OF VETERANS WHO HAVE DONATED THEIR REMAINS TO 
              SCIENCE.

    (a) Authority To Memorialize.--(1) Chapter 24 of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 2412. Arlington National Cemetery: memorialization at 
              columbarium of veterans who have donated their remains to 
              science
    ``The Secretary of the Army may honor, by marker or other 
appropriate means at the columbarium at Arlington National Cemetery, 
the memory of any veteran eligible for inurnment in the columbarium 
whose cremated remains cannot be inurned in the columbarium as a result 
of the donation of the veteran's organs or remains for medical or 
scientific purposes.''.
    (2) The table of sections at the beginning of that chapter is 
amended by adding at the end the following:

``2412. Arlington National Cemetery: memorialization at columbarium of 
                            veterans who have donated their remains to 
                            science.''.
    (b) Applicability.--Section 2412 of title 38, United States Code, 
as added by subsection (a), shall apply to veterans who die on or after 
January 1, 1996.
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