[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3076 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3076

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
 Veterans Affairs to furnish caskets and urns for burial in cemeteries 
 of States and tribal organizations of veterans without next of kin or 
  sufficient resources to provide for caskets or urns, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 20, 2016

  Mr. Cotton 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 caskets and urns for burial in cemeteries 
 of States and tribal organizations of veterans without next of kin or 
  sufficient resources to provide for caskets or urns, 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 ``Charles Duncan Buried with Honor Act 
of 2016''.

SEC. 2. CASKETS AND URNS FOR BURIAL OF CERTAIN VETERANS IN CEMETERIES 
              OF STATES AND TRIBAL ORGANIZATIONS.

    Section 2306(f) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking 
        ``for burial in a national cemetery of a deceased veteran'' and 
        inserting ``for burial of a deceased veteran in a national 
        cemetery or in a cemetery of a State or tribal organization for 
        which the Department has provided a grant under section 2408 of 
        this title''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``the burial of the 
        veteran in a national cemetery'' and inserting ``such burial''.
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