To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the equitable restoration of eligibility for provision of Department of Veterans Affairs memorial headstones and markers for eligible spouses and dependent children of veterans whose remains are unavailable.

This bill expands eligibility for memorial headstones and markers provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs to commemorate individuals whose remains are unavailable. Specifically, the bill removes a date limitation to make eligible for a headstone or marker spouses of veterans or certain servicemembers, surviving spouses of veterans, and eligible dependent children of veterans or certain servicemembers, regardless of the date the individual died.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6695 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6695

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the equitable 
  restoration of eligibility for provision of Department of Veterans 
   Affairs memorial headstones and markers for eligible spouses and 
     dependent children of veterans whose remains are unavailable.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 9, 2022

  Mr. Posey introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the equitable 
  restoration of eligibility for provision of Department of Veterans 
   Affairs memorial headstones and markers for eligible spouses and 
     dependent children of veterans whose remains are unavailable.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ELIGIBILITY OF VETERANS' SPOUSES AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN 
              WHOSE REMAINS ARE UNAVAILABLE FOR DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 
              AFFAIRS MEMORIAL HEADSTONES AND MARKERS.

    Section 2306(b)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``An individual who 
        dies on or after November 11, 1998, who is the'' and inserting 
        ``The''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``An individual who 
        dies on or after November 11, 1998, who is an'' and inserting 
        ``An''.
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