United States · Bill · S
S. 769 (99th)
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to allow the use of upright grave markers in national Veterans' Administration cemeteries.
Introduced
28 March 1985
Last action
—
Status
Committee on Veterans received executive comment from VA.
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
14 January 2025
Summary
Amends the national cemeteries and memorials provisions of Federal law to require that each grave marker in a national cemetery be upright unless the deceased or the deceased's survivor requests a flat marker. Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to designate within each national cemetery a section with flat markers and a section with upright markers.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
1 official file
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 28 March 1985
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/senate-bill/769
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/99/s/769