Protecting our Veterans’ Memories Act

This bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay a plot or burial allowance of $525 to a state, state agency, or local government when it buries certain family members of veterans in a cemetery it owns. Eligible family members include spouses, surviving spouses (even if they remarried), and minor children under 21, or under 23 if in school. The VA could also choose to cover unmarried adult children. The $525 amount could be increased over time, and the change would apply to deaths on or after the date the bill becomes law.

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Sponsors

• Bonnie Watson Coleman Democrat sponsor
• 0 cosponsors