[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2659 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2659

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the eligibility 
  of Indian tribal organizations for grants for the establishment of 
                  veterans cemeteries on trust lands.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 26, 2006

 Mr. Akaka (for himself and Mr. Inouye) 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 provide for the eligibility 
  of Indian tribal organizations for grants for the establishment of 
                  veterans cemeteries on trust lands.

    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 ``Native American Veterans Cemetery 
Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF INDIAN TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR GRANTS FOR THE 
              ESTABLISHMENT OF VETERANS CEMETERIES ON TRUST LANDS.

    Section 2408 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(f)(1) The Secretary may make grants under this subsection to any 
tribal organization to assist the tribal organization in establishing, 
expanding, or improving veterans' cemeteries on trust land owned by, or 
held in trust for, the tribal organization.
    ``(2) Grants under this subsection shall be made in the same 
manner, and under the same conditions, as grants to States are made 
under the preceding provisions of this section.
    ``(3) In this subsection:
            ``(A) The term `tribal organization' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 3764(4) of this title.
            ``(B) The term `trust land' has the meaning given that term 
        in section 3764(1) of this title.''.
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