Cemeteries And Funerals

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US Congress 114th Congress

To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase certain veteran funeral benefits. [HB-1911] [Veterans ] [Funding ]
To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to increase certain veteran funeral benefits. Increases the amounts payable through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for: (1) burial and funeral expenses of certain veterans, and (2) such expenses in connection with a veteran's death due to a service-connected disability. Directs VA, with respect to any fiscal year, to provide percentage increases for burial and funeral expenses.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. James P. McGovern Referred To The Subcommittee On Disability Assistance And Memorial Affairs. on 05/01/2015

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To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the eligibility for a medallion furnished by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to signify the veteran status of a deceased individual. [HB-1380] [Veterans ]
To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the eligibility for a medallion furnished by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to signify the veteran status of a deceased individual. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish a medallion or other device to signify the veteran status of a deceased individual, to be attached to a headstone or marker furnished at private expense, regardless of the date of death of such individual.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. James P. McGovern Subcommittee Consideration And Mark-up Session Held. on 07/09/2015

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Dignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 2015 [HB-1338] [Veterans ] [Military ]
Dignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to study and report to Congress on matters relating to the interring of veterans' unclaimed remains in national cemeteries under the control of the National Cemetery Administration, including: the scope of the issues relating to veterans' unclaimed remains, including the estimated number of such remains; the effectiveness of VA procedures for working with persons or entities having custody of unclaimed remains to facilitate their interment (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 11/17/2015

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World War II Merchant Mariner Service Act [HB-1288] [Veterans ] [Military ] [Social Security ] [Human Rights ]
World War II Merchant Mariner Service Act Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to accept additional documentation for verifying that an individual performed honorable service as a coastwise merchant seaman during the period beginning on December 7, 1941, and ending on December 31, 1946, for purposes of eligibility for veterans' benefits under the GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977. Requires such documentation to include Social Security Administration records and validated testimony in the case of the absence of Coast Guard shipping or discharge (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney Referred To The Subcommittee On Military Personnel. on 08/13/2015

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National Forest Small Tracts Act Amendments Act of 2015 [HB-1214] [Public Lands and National Parks ] [Real Estate ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Recreation ]
National Forest Small Tracts Act Amendments Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) Amends the Small Tracts Act (the Act) to permit the sale, exchange, or interchange under such Act of National Forest System (NFS) lands the sale or exchange of which is not practicable under any other authority of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) which have a value determined to be not more than $500,000. Includes as those lands permitted to be sold, exchanged, or interchanged under the Act: parcels of 40 acres or less which are determined to be physically isolated, to be inaccessible, (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jared Polis Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry. on 09/17/2015

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Veterans Cemetery Benefit Correction Act [HB-1183] [Veterans ] [Public Lands and National Parks ]
Veterans Cemetery Benefit Correction Act Extends the requirement that the Department of Veterans Affairs provide an outer burial receptacle for each new grave of a veteran, a veteran's spouse, or a veteran's dependent in which remains are interred in a casket in Arlington National Cemetery or in an open cemetery under the control of the the National Cemetery Administration to each such grave in an open cemetery under the control of the National Park Service.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Referred To The Subcommittee On Federal Lands. on 03/23/2015

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Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak Wilderness Additions Act [HB-1138] [Public Lands and National Parks ] [Real Estate ] [Housing ] [Community Development ] [Construction ] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak Wilderness Additions Act (Sec. 202) Directs the USDA to issue a special use permit or convey to Blaine County, Idaho, without consideration, up to one acre of land for use as a school bus turnaround, as depicted on the map titled "Blaine County Conveyance--Eagle Creek Parcel--Proposed," and dated October 1, 2006. (Sec. 203) Directs Interior to convey to Custer County, Idaho, without consideration, approximately 114 acres of land depicted as Parcel A on the map titled "Custer County and City of Mackay (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Michael K. Simpson Became Public Law No: 114-46. (txt | Pdf) on 08/07/2015

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A resolution designating December 13, 2014, as "Wreaths Across America Day". [SR-593] [Veterans ] [Military ] [Public Safety ]
Designates December 13, 2014, as Wreaths Across America Day. Honors the Wreaths Across America project, the Patriot Guard Riders, the trucking industry, and all of the volunteers and donors involved in the tradition of placing remembrance wreaths at national cemeteries and veterans' memorials. Recognizes the service and sacrifices made by veterans, members of the Armed Forces, and their families.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Susan M. Collins Submitted In The Senate, Considered, And Agreed To Without Amendment And With A Preamble By Unanimous Consent. (consideration: Cr S6307-6308; Text As Passed Senate: Cr S6303) on 12/03/2014

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A resolution designating December 14, 2013, as "Wreaths Across America Day". [SR-320] [Veterans ] [Military ] [Public Safety ]
Designates December 14, 2013, as Wreaths Across America Day. Honors the Wreaths Across America project, the Patriot Guard Riders, and all of the volunteers and donors involved in the tradition of placing holiday wreaths at national cemeteries and veterans' memorials. Recognizes the sacrifices made by veterans, members of the Armed Forces, and their families.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Susan M. Collins Submitted In The Senate, Considered, And Agreed To Without Amendment And With A Preamble By Unanimous Consent. (consideration: Cr S8813; Text As Passed Senate: Cr S8811) on 12/13/2013

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A resolution relative to the memorial observances of the Honorable Frank R. Lautenberg, late a Senator from the State of New Jersey. [SR-160]
Extends invitations to the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, and the members of the Cabinet, the Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Diplomatic Corps (through the Secretary of State), the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval Operations of the Navy, the Major General Commandant of the Marine Corps, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the Commandant of the Coast Guard to attend the memorial observances in the Senate Chamber of the Honorable Frank (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Harry Reid Submitted In The Senate, Considered, And Agreed To Without Amendment And With A Preamble By Unanimous Consent. (consideration: Cr S3926-3927; Text As Passed Senate: Cr S3961) on 06/04/2013

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A concurrent resolution providing for the use of the catafalque situated in the Exhibition Hall of the Capitol Visitor Center in connection with memorial services to be conducted in the United States Senate Chamber for the Honorable Frank R. Lautenberg, late a Senator from the State of New Jersey. [SCR-18] [Arts and Culture ]
Directs the Architect of the Capitol to transfer the catafalque which is situated in the Exhibition Hall of the Capitol Visitor Center to the Senate Chamber so that it may be used in connection with services for the Honorable Frank R. Lautenberg, late a Senator from New Jersey.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Harry Reid Submitted In The Senate, Considered, And Agreed To Without Amendment By Unanimous Consent. (consideration: Cr S3962; Text As Passed Senate: Cr S3962) on 06/04/2013

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Veterans Health and Benefits Improvement Act of 2013 [S.944] [Veterans ] [Healthcare ] [Education ] [Small Business ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Military ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Pensions ] [Sports ] [Children and Youth ] [Mental Health ] [Public Health ]
Veterans Health and Benefits Improvement Act of 2013 - Title I: Survivor and Dependent Matters - (Sec. 101) Extends the period during which additional dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) will be paid to surviving spouses with children from two years to three years after their entitlement to DIC commences. (Sec. 102) Provides that the remarriage after age 55 of a veteran's surviving spouse shall not bar the furnishing of Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) DIC, health care, educational assistance, and housing loans to that spouse. (Sec. (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bernard Sanders Committee On Veterans' Affairs. Reported By Senator Sanders With An Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute And An Amendment To The Title. With Written Report No. 113-123. Minority Views Filed. on 12/09/2013

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Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 [S.932] [Veterans ] [Funding ] [Healthcare ] [Budget and Spending ] [Construction ] [Technology and Innovation ] [Native American Affairs ] [Public Safety ]
Putting Veterans Funding First Act of 2013 - Authorizes the provision of advance appropriations for the following discretionary (under current law, medical care) accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA): (1) Veterans Health Administration Medical Services, Medical Support and Compliance, Medical Facilities, and Medical Research and Support; (2) National Cemetery Administration; and (3) Veterans Benefits Administration, Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program. Authorizes the provision of advance appropriations for the following VA (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Edward J. Markey Committee On Veterans' Affairs. Ordered To Be Reported With An Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute Favorably. on 11/19/2013

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Veterans' Outreach Act of 2013 [S.927] [Veterans ] [Healthcare ] [Budget and Spending ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Nonprofit ] [Public Health ] [Human Services ]
Veterans' Outreach Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to carry out a two-year demonstration project to assess the feasibility and advisability of using state and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations to increase veteran awareness of available benefits and services, and to improve the coordination of outreach activities between the Secretary and federal, state, and local government and nonprofit providers of health care and benefit services for veterans. Allows the Secretary to extend such program for an (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bernard Sanders Committee On Veterans' Affairs. Hearings Held. Hearings Printed: S.hrg. 113-111. on 06/12/2013

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A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend expiring authority for work-study allowances for individuals who are pursuing programs of rehabilitation, education, or training under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to expand such authority to certain outreach services provided through congressional offices, and for other purposes. [S.894] [Education ] [Veterans ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Extends from June 30, 2013, to June 30, 2016, the period during which certain work-study activities qualify for an additional veterans' educational assistance allowance under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) educational assistance program. Expands such activities to include, for the same additional period, certain outreach services provided through U.S. congressional offices, including the distribution of information to members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and their dependents concerning available benefits and services. Requires annual (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bernard Sanders Committee On Veterans' Affairs. Hearings Held. Hearings Printed: S.hrg. 113-111. on 06/12/2013

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Black Hills Cemetery Act [S.447] [Public Lands and National Parks ] [Agriculture ] [Community Development ] [Funding ] [Grants ] [Real Estate ]
Black Hills Cemetery Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey, to the local communities in South Dakota that are currently managing specified community cemeteries, all interest of the United States in: (1) the parcels of National Forest System land that contain the cemeteries, and (2) up to an additional two acres adjoining each cemetery to ensure that such conveyances include unmarked gravesites and allow for the expansion of those cemeteries. Subjects each such conveyance to the conditions that: (1) the recipient accept the (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. John Thune Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. Reported By Senator Wyden Without Amendment. With Written Report No. 113-63. on 06/27/2013

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Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 [S.444] [Defense ] [Military ] [National Security ] [Budget and Spending ]
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013 - Appropriates funds for FY2013 for the Department of Defense (DOD) for: (1) military personnel; (2) operation and maintenance (O&M), including for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, environmental restoration, overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid, former Soviet Union cooperative threat reduction, and the DOD Acquisition Workforce Development Fund; (3) procurement, including for aircraft, missile, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Susan M. Collins Sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure. (cr S1093) on 03/04/2013

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Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization and Jobs Protection Act [S.340] [Public Lands and National Parks ] [Labor, Jobs, Employment ] [Native American Affairs ] [Economic Development ] [Energy ] [Transportation and Motor Vehicles ] [Small Business ]
Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization and Jobs Protection Act - (Sec. 3) Gives Sealaska, the regional Alaska Native Corporation for southeast Alaska, 90 days following this Act's enactment to agree to accept the conveyance of specified federal land, subject to certain conditions and restrictions, as full and final satisfaction of its remaining land entitlement under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). Provides that if Sealaska fails to agree to that conveyance: (1) this Act's provisions cease to be effective; and (2) (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Lisa Murkowski Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. Reported By Senator Wyden With An Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute. With Written Report No. 113-98. on 09/10/2013

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Veterans Dignified Burial Act [S.2951] [Veterans ]
Veterans Dignified Burial Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA): (1) upon confirming the veteran status of a deceased veteran in the custody of a local medical examiner, funeral director, county service group, or other similar entity, to request from such entity the specific date of the scheduled interment of such veteran; and (2) during each 30-day period following such request, to repeat the request until such entity confirms that such veteran has been interred. Requires the Secretary, by January 31 of each year, to submit to the (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Dean Heller Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 11/20/2014

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Dignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 2014 [S.2822] [Veterans ] [Military ]
Dignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 2014 - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to study and report to Congress on matters relating to the interring of veterans' unclaimed remains in national cemeteries under the control of the National Cemetery Administration, including: the scope of the issues relating to veterans' unclaimed remains, including the estimated number of such remains; the effectiveness of VA procedures for working with persons or entities having custody of unclaimed remains to facilitate the interment of such remains (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Pat Toomey Received In The House. on 12/11/2014

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