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38 U.S.C. 2411
Section 1
1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Bertie’s Respect for National Cemeteries Act.
Section 2
2. Prohibition against interment or memorialization in the National Cemetery Administration or Arlington National Cemetery of persons committing Federal or State capital crimes Section 2411(a)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended— by striking In the case and inserting (A) Except as provided by subparagraph (B), in the case; and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: 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. Section 2(c) of the Alicia Dawn Koehl Respect for National Cemeteries Act (38 U.S.C. 2411 note) is amended— by striking this section and inserting subsection (a); and 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. (B)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..
Section 3
3. Disinterment of remains of George E. Siple from Indiantown Gap National Cemetery The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall disinter the remains of George E. Siple from Indiantown Gap National Cemetery. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall— notify the next-of-kin of record for George E. Siple of the impending disinterment of his remains; and 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.