[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5805-S5806]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6281. Mrs. BLACKBURN submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and 
Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the appropriate place in title X, insert the following:

     SEC. __. DISINTERMENTS FROM NATIONAL CEMETERIES.

       (a) Applicability of Authority to Reconsider Decisions of 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs or Secretary of the Army to 
     Inter the Remains or Memorialize a Person in a National 
     Cemetery.--
       (1) In general.--Section 2(c) of the Alicia Dawn Koehl 
     Respect for National Cemeteries Act (Public Law 113-65; 38 
     U.S.C. 2411 note) is amended by striking ``after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act'' and inserting ``after November 
     21, 1997''.
       (2) Congressional notices.--Upon becoming aware of a 
     covered interment or memorialization--
       (A) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall issue to the 
     Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the 
     Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of 
     Representatives written notice of such covered interment or 
     memorialization; and
       (B) the Secretary of the Army, in the case of a covered 
     interment or memorialization in Arlington National Cemetery, 
     shall issue to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, 
     the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives, the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the 
     Senate, and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House 
     of Representatives written notice of such covered interment 
     or memorialization.
       (3) Covered interment or memorialization defined.--In this 
     subsection, the term ``covered interment or memorialization'' 
     means an interment or memorialization--
       (A) in a national cemetery;
       (B) between January 1, 1990, and November 21, 1997; and
       (C) that would have been subject to section 2411 of title 
     38, United States Code, as amended by the Alicia Dawn Koehl 
     Respect for National Cemeteries Act, if subsection 2(c) of 
     such Act, as amended by paragraph (1) of this subsection, 
     were amended by striking ``after November 21, 1997'' and 
     inserting ``on or after January 1, 1990''.
       (b) Disinterment of Remains of Andrew Chabrol From 
     Arlington National Cemetery.--
       (1) Disinterment.--Not later than September 30, 2023, the 
     Secretary of the Army shall disinter the remains of Andrew 
     Chabrol from Arlington National Cemetery.
       (2) Notification.--The Secretary of the Army may not carry 
     out paragraph (1) until after notifying the next of kin of 
     Andrew Chabrol.
       (3) Disposition.--After carrying out paragraph (1), the 
     Secretary of the Army shall--
       (A) relinquish the remains to the next of kin described in 
     paragraph (2); or

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       (B) if no such next of kin responds to notification under 
     paragraph (2) or such kin refuses to accept the remains, 
     arrange for disposition of the remains as the Secretary of 
     the Army determines appropriate.
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