Gerald’s Law Act

This bill amends veterans' burial benefit rules to include veterans who die at home while receiving hospice care through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). It directly affects veterans who were in VA hospice care at home and had previously received VA hospital or nursing home care. The key change adds a new eligibility category, allowing burial allowances for these veterans if their hospice care followed VA hospital or nursing home care. This expands existing benefits without changing benefit amounts or creating new costs. The amendment retroactively applies to the 2020 law that originally created the related provisions.