[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 662 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 662

 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

                             March 29, 2001

    Mr. Dodd (for himself, Mr. Byrd, Mr. Santorum, Mr. Conrad, Mr. 
    Feingold, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Dorgan, and Mr. 
  Voinovich) 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.--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 on or after November 1, 1990.
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