[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2096 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2096

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the eligibility 
   of parents of certain deceased veterans for interment in national 
                              cemeteries.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 29, 2009

   Mr. Kerry 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 parents of certain deceased veterans for interment in national 
                              cemeteries.

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

SECTION 1. INTERMENT IN NATIONAL CEMETERIES OF PARENTS OF CERTAIN 
              DECEASED VETERANS.

    (a) Interment of Parents of Certain Deceased Veterans.--Section 
2402 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
the following new paragraph:
            ``(9) The parent of a person listed in any of paragraphs 
        (1) through (4) or paragraph (7) who, at the time of the 
        parent's death, does not have a spouse, surviving spouse, or 
        child who has been interred, or who, if deceased, would be 
        eligible to be interred, in a national cemetery pursuant to 
        paragraph (5), but only if--
                    ``(A) the person so listed dies before the parent; 
                and
                    ``(B)(i) the plot in which the person so listed is 
                interred contains sufficient space for the interment of 
                the parent; and
                    ``(ii) the parent is interred in that plot.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--Paragraph (9) of section 2402 of title 38, 
United States Code, shall apply with respect to the death of an 
eligible parent on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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