[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 75 (Wednesday, May 1, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S3294]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             KEEPING MILITARY FAMILIES TOGETHER ACT OF 2023

  Ms. HASSAN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
on Veterans' Affairs be discharged from further consideration of S. 
2181 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2181) to amend title 38, United States Code, to 
     repeal the sunset on entitlement to memorial headstones and 
     markers for commemoration of veterans and certain individuals 
     and to repeal the sunset on authority to bury remains of 
     certain spouses and children in national cemeteries, and for 
     other purposes.

  There being no objection, the committee was discharged, and the 
Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Ms. HASSAN. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read 
a third time and passed and that the motion to reconsider be considered 
made and laid upon the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2181) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 2181

       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 ``Keeping Military Families 
     Together Act of 2023''.

     SEC. 2. REPEAL OF SUNSET ON ENTITLEMENT TO MEMORIAL 
                   HEADSTONES AND MARKERS FOR COMMEMORATION OF 
                   VETERANS AND CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS.

       Section 2306(b)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is 
     amended by striking ``if such death occurs before October 1, 
     2024'' both places it appears.

     SEC. 3. REPEAL OF SUNSET ON AUTHORITY TO BURY REMAINS OF 
                   CERTAIN SPOUSES AND CHILDREN IN NATIONAL 
                   CEMETERIES.

       Section 2402(a)(5) of title 38, United States Code, is 
     amended by striking ``if such death occurs before October 1, 
     2024''.

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