[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2039 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2039

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to furnish headstones and markers for certain deceased 
       veterans buried in veterans' cemeteries of Indian tribes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 16, 2013

 Ms. Titus (for herself, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mr. Cole, Mrs. Napolitano, 
     Ms. McCollum, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. Cardenas, and Mr. Takano) 
 introduced the following bill; which was 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 and markers for certain deceased 
       veterans buried in veterans' cemeteries of Indian tribes.

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

SECTION 1. HEADSTONES AND MARKERS FOR PLACEMENT IN TRIBAL VETERANS' 
              CEMETERIES.

    Section 2306 of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(4), by inserting ``or in a veterans' 
        cemetery on land owned by or held in trust for a tribal 
        organization (as defined in section 3765(4) of this title)'' 
        after ``State''; and
            (2) in subsection (b)(1), by inserting ``a veterans' 
        cemetery on land owned by or held in trust for a tribal 
        organization,'' after ``a veterans' cemetery owned by a 
        State,''.
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