[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1215 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1215

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to furnish headstones or markers for marked graves of, 
           or to otherwise commemorate, certain individuals.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 10, 1999

   Mr. Dodd (for himself, Mr. Conrad, and Mr. Leahy) 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 Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to furnish headstones or markers for marked graves of, 
           or to otherwise commemorate, certain individuals.

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

SECTION 1. AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE HEADSTONES OR MARKERS FOR MARKED GRAVES 
              OR OTHERWISE COMMEMORATE CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) In General.--Section 2306 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsections (a) and (e)(1), by striking ``the 
        unmarked graves of''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(f) A headstone or marker furnished under subsection (a) shall be 
furnished, upon request, for the marked grave or unmarked grave of the 
individual or at another area appropriate for the purpose of 
commemorating the individual.''.
    (b) Applicability.--(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
amendment to subsection (a) of section 2306 of title 38, United States 
Code, made by subsection (a) of this section, and subsection (f) of 
such section 2306, as added by subsection (a) of this section, shall 
apply with respect to burials occurring before, on, or after the date 
of the enactment of this Act.
    (2) The amendments referred to in paragraph (1) shall not apply in 
the case of the grave for any individual who died before November 1, 
1990, for which the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs provided 
reimbursement in lieu of furnishing a headstone or marker under 
subsection (d) of section 906 of title 38, United States Code, as such 
subsection was in effect after September 30, 1978, and before November 
1, 1990.
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