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Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10] · R–PA
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-03-11 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This proposal would require federal officials to take every reasonable action, including searching public records, to check whether someone is barred from burial in a National Cemetery Administration cemetery or Arlington National Cemetery. It would also require the Department of Veterans Affairs to remove George E. Siple’s remains from Indiantown Gap National Cemetery and notify his next of kin.
The appropriate Federal official shall take every reasonable action, including by searching public records, to ensure that a person who will be interred in a cemetery in the National Cemetery Administration or in Arlington National Cemetery is not ineligible for such interment by reason of this section.
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall disinter the remains of George E. Siple from Indiantown Gap National Cemetery.
notify the next-of-kin of record for George E. Siple of the impending disinterment of his remains
The proposed eligibility check would be mandatory for the appropriate federal official. It would concern burial restrictions under section 2411 of title 38, rather than establish a new, fully stated list of disqualifying offenses.
Section 2411(a)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended
The appropriate Federal official shall take every reasonable action, including by searching public records, to ensure that a person who will be interred in a cemetery in the National Cemetery Administration or in Arlington National Cemetery is not ineligible for such interment by reason of this section.
The proposal would revise an earlier cemetery law’s applicability language under a provision concerning removal of buried remains. It would replace “this section” with “subsection (a)” and insert language referring to section 2411’s enactment date and the applicability of an earlier amendment to burial or memorialization.
(b) Authority To disinter Section 2(c) of the Alicia Dawn Koehl Respect for National Cemeteries Act (38 U.S.C. 2411 note) is amended— (1) by striking this section and inserting subsection (a); and (2) by inserting after Arlington National Cemetery the following: on or after the date of the enactment of such section 2411 and the amendment made by subsection (b) shall apply with respect to any such interment or memorialization conducted.
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs would be required to remove George E. Siple’s remains from Indiantown Gap National Cemetery. This is a direct requirement concerning a named person.
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall disinter the remains of George E. Siple from Indiantown Gap National Cemetery.
The Secretary would have to notify Siple’s recorded next of kin before removing the remains and then release the remains to them. If the recorded next of kin were unavailable, the Secretary would have to arrange an appropriate disposition of the remains.
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall— (1) notify the next-of-kin of record for George E. Siple of the impending disinterment of his remains; and (2) upon disinterment, relinquish the remains to the next-of-kin of record for George E. Siple or, if the next-of-kin of record for George E. Siple is unavailable, arrange for an appropriate disposition of the remains.
The supplied action snapshot, updated June 6, 2025, records introduction in the House and referral to the Veterans’ Affairs and Armed Services committees on March 11, 2025. It also records referral to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs on March 31, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2025-06-06T14:17:56Z.
2025-03-11: Introduced in House
2025-03-11: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2025-03-31: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
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