[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 141 (Wednesday, September 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5995]
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  SA 3259. Mr. WARNOCK (for himself and Mr. Moran) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4638, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 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. ___. DEFINITION OF SURVIVING SPOUSE FOR PURPOSES OF 
                   VETERANS BENEFITS.

       Paragraph (3) of section 101 of title 38, United States 
     Code, is amended to read as follows:
       ``(3) The term `surviving spouse' means (except for 
     purposes of chapter 19 of this title) a person who was the 
     spouse of a veteran at the time of the veteran's death, and 
     who lived with the veteran continuously from the date of 
     marriage to the date of the veteran's death (except where 
     there was a separation which was due to the misconduct of, or 
     procured by, the veteran without the fault of the spouse) and 
     who has not remarried.''.
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