A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to allow a surviving spouse of a deceased veteran to be buried in a national cemetery with such veteran even if the surviving spouse has remarried.

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Introduced

13 March 1979

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Status

Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

Summary

Includes the remarried surviving spouse of a deceased veteran among those persons eligible for interment in a national cemetery. Stipulates that such remarried spouse may be so interred only upon his or her election and only if such person's grave is adjacent to that of the former spouse veteran.

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summary · EN · 13 March 1979
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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/2810
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