[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 37 (Thursday, March 1, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S1321]
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                VETERANS CEMETERY BENEFIT CORRECTION ACT

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs be discharged from further consideration 
of S. 2372 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2372) to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     provide outer burial receptacles for remains buried in 
     National Parks, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered 
read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered 
made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2372) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 2372

       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 ``Veterans Cemetery Benefit 
     Correction Act''.

     SEC. 2. PROVISION OF OUTER BURIAL RECEPTACLES FOR REMAINS 
                   BURIED IN NATIONAL PARKS.

       Section 2306(e) of title 38, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) by inserting ``(A)'' before ``The Secretary of 
     Veterans'';
       (B) in subparagraph (A), as designated by subparagraph (A) 
     of this paragraph, by striking ``The Secretary of the Army'' 
     and inserting the following:
       ``(B) The Secretary of the Army''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(C) The Secretary of the Interior shall provide an outer 
     burial receptacle for each such a grave in an open national 
     cemetery administered by the National Park Service.'';
       (2) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) by striking ``or in the Arlington National Cemetery'' 
     and inserting ``, in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in a 
     national cemetery administered by the National Park 
     Service''; and
       (B) by striking ``or Secretary of the Army'' and inserting 
     ``, the Secretary of the Army, or the Secretary of the 
     Interior'';
       (3) in paragraph (3)(B)(ii), by striking ``or, with respect 
     to Arlington National Cemetery, the Secretary of the Army'' 
     and inserting ``or the Secretary of the Army with respect to 
     Arlington National Cemetery or the Secretary of the Interior 
     with respect to a national cemetery administered by the 
     National Park Service''; and
       (4) in paragraph (4), by striking ``or, with respect to 
     Arlington National Cemetery, the Secretary of the Army'' and 
     inserting ``or the Secretary of the Army with respect to 
     Arlington National Cemetery or the Secretary of the Interior 
     with respect to a national cemetery administered by the 
     National Park Service''.

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