[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2437 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2437

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the burial of the 
 cremated remains of persons who served as Women's Air Forces Service 
     Pilots in Arlington National Cemetery, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 11, 2016

  Ms. Mikulski (for herself and Mrs. Ernst) 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 burial of the 
 cremated remains of persons who served as Women's Air Forces Service 
     Pilots in Arlington National Cemetery, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Women Airforce Service Pilot 
Arlington Inurnment Restoration Act of 2016''.

SEC. 2. BURIAL OF CREMATED REMAINS OF WOMEN'S AIR FORCES SERVICE PILOTS 
              IN ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.

    (a) In General.--Section 2410 of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c)(1) The Secretary of the Army shall ensure that under such 
regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, the cremated remains of any 
person described in paragraph (2) are eligible for inurnment in 
Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.
    ``(2) A person described in this paragraph is a person whose 
service as a member of the Women's Air Forces Service Pilots is 
considered to be active duty service pursuant to section 401 of the GI 
Bill Improvement Act of 1977 (Public Law 95-202; 38 U.S.C. 106 
note).''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to a person who dies before, on, or after the date 
of the enactment of this Act.
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