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HR 2957 100th Congress House Armed Forces and National Security American Battle Monuments Commission Cemeteries and funerals Economics and Public Finance Foreign exchange Government Operations and Politics Government trust funds Grants-in-aid Health facilities Hospitals Monetary policy Money Monuments and memorials Pennsylvania State finance States Veterans' hospitals Virginia Wisconsin

A bill to provide for improvements in the National Cemetery System administered under title 38, United States Code, and for other purposes.

Introduced: July 15, 1987 Introduced by: Kaptur, Marcy Democratic · Ohio See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 11 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 29, 1988
Certain Provisions Included in H.R.2616.
Aug 4, 1987
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans.
Aug 3, 1987
Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 393 - 0 (Record Vote No: 295).
Aug 3, 1987
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 393 - 0 (Record Vote No: 295).
Aug 3, 1987
Called up by House Under Suspension of Rules.
Jul 28, 1987
Placed on Union Calendar No: 152.
Jul 28, 1987
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Report No: 100-246.
Jul 22, 1987
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Jul 22, 1987
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Jul 15, 1987
Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Jul 15, 1987
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends Federal provisions relating to cemeteries and memorials to remove the per-State limitation on the receipt of grant funds used for the establishment, expansion, and improvement of veterans' cemeteries. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs (the Administrator) to make contributions to local authorities for the construction of traffic controls, road improvements, or other devices on land adjacent to a national cemetery if the Administrator determines that such a contribution is necessary for safe ingress and egress to or from such cemetery.

Authorizes the Administrator to provide an approved grave liner for the interment of remains in cemeteries within the National Cemetery System and in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.

Authorizes the Administrator to provide for flat grave markers in the case of gravesites of cremated remains that are interred in the ground. Authorizes the Administrator to also provide for flat grave markers in the case of graves on land transferred to the Department of Memorial Affairs from the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans Administration for the expansion of a cemetery at the Clement A. Zablocki Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Establishes in the Treasury the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, American Battle Monuments Commission, Account. States that account funds shall be used by the American Battle Monuments Commission (the Commission) to eliminate operating losses due to fluctuations in currency exchange rates of foreign countries which occur after a budget request for the Commission is submitted to the Congress. Requires any limits applicable to appropriations available to the Commission to be adjusted to take into account any such foreign currency fluctuations. Authorizes funds originally transferred from such Account to be transferred back to that Account if foreign currency fluctuations necessitate such action. Requires unobligated balances of funds appropriated to the Commission for a fiscal year to be transferred into the Account within a specified time and to be merged with and available for the same period and purposes as that Account. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Congress annually on funds made available under this provision. Authorizes appropriations to the Account.

What's happening now March 29, 1988

Certain Provisions Included in H.R.2616.

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