[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S2583]
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  SA 412. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2024 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. __. DISINTERMENT OF REMAINS OF MICHAEL ALAN SILKA FROM 
                   SITKA NATIONAL CEMETERY, ALASKA.

       (a) Disinterment.--Not later than one year after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans 
     Affairs shall disinter the remains of Michael Alan Silka from 
     Sitka National Cemetery, Alaska.
       (b) Notification.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may 
     not carry out subsection (a) until after notifying the next 
     of kin of Michael Alan Silka.
       (c) Disposition.--After carrying out subsection (a), the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall--
       (1) relinquish the remains to the next of kin described in 
     subsection (b); or
       (2) if no such next of kin responds to the notification 
     under subsection (b), arrange for disposition of the remains 
     as the Secretary determines appropriate.
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