Loved Ones Interment Act
This bill amends VA policy to allow headstones or markers for cremated veterans buried alongside other eligible veterans. It specifically permits the VA to provide such markers when the cremated veteran shares a burial site with another eligible veteran (per 38 U.S.C. §2402(a)), the marker includes both individuals' names, and the cost does not exceed current limits. The change directly affects cremated veterans interred with other eligible veterans at VA cemeteries. It does not expand eligibility but adjusts how existing markers are provided under specific conditions.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2024
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Sep 25, 2024
Last action Oct 22, 2024
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Committee
2
Oct 22, 2024
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
lower
Sep 25, 2024
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
lower
Sep 25, 2024
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 8 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Julia Brownley
DDemocratic
Co
André Carson
DDemocratic
Co
Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen
RRepublican
Co
Christopher R. Deluzio
DDemocratic
Co
Greg Landsman
DDemocratic
Co
Mike Levin
DDemocratic
Co
Rashida Tlaib
DDemocratic
Co
Raúl M. Grijalva
DDemocratic
Co
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
DDemocratic
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