[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4420 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4420

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs to pay costs relating to the transportation of certain 
deceased veterans to certain State and tribal veterans' cemeteries, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 4, 2020

 Mr. Rounds (for himself, Mr. Cassidy, and Mrs. Blackburn) 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 pay costs relating to the transportation of certain 
deceased veterans to certain State and tribal veterans' cemeteries, 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 ``Unclaimed Veterans Burial Benefit 
Correction Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. TRANSPORTATION OF DECEASED VETERANS TO CERTAIN VETERANS' 
              CEMETERIES.

    (a) In General.--Section 2308(a) of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``in a national 
        cemetery'' and inserting ``in a covered cemetery''; and
            (2) in the second sentence, by striking ``to the national 
        cemetery'' and inserting ``to the covered cemetery''.
    (b) Covered Cemetery Defined.--Section 2308 of such title is 
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Covered Cemetery Defined.--In this section, the term `covered 
cemetery' has the meaning given such term in section 2306(f)(2) of this 
title.''.
    (c) Conforming Amendment.--Section 2308 of such title is amended in 
the section heading by adding at the end the following: ``or a 
veterans' cemetery''.
    (d) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 23 of such title is amended by striking the item relating to 
section 2308 and inserting the following new item:

``2308. Transportation of deceased veteran to a national cemetery or a 
                            veterans' cemetery.''.
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