A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the payment by the Department of Defense of certain expenses incident to the death of retired members of the armed forces who were patients in a United States hospital at the time of their death.

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Introduced

11 October 1979

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Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.

Summary

Provides that the Department of Defense shall pay funeral and transportation costs, and may pay specified additional funeral expenses at non-national cemeteries, incident to the death of certain retired military members who die in a United States hospital.

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/5535
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