38 U.S.C. § 2402
Persons eligible for interment in national cemeteries
United States · Title 38 — VETERANS’ BENEFITS · Status: effective
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- 38 U.S.C. § 2402, Persons eligible for interment in national cemeteries, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/473052
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Under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe and subject to the provisions of section 6105 of this title, the remains of the following persons may be buried in any open national cemetery under the control of the National Cemetery Administration:
Any member of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps of the Army, Navy, or Air Force whose death occurs under honorable conditions while such member is—
hospitalized or undergoing treatment, at the expense of the United States, for injury or disease contracted or incurred under honorable conditions while such member is—
Any individual whose service is described in subsection (a) or (b) of section 107 of this title if such individual at the time of death—
A person described in this subparagraph is a person described in paragraph (1) who—
Any individual—
who—
who—
at the time of the individual’s death—
For purposes of subsection (a)(9) of this section:
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- National Cemeteries Act of 1973House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans' Benefits Improvement and Health Care Authorization Act of 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans' Benefits Amendments of 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Department of Veterans Affairs Health-Care Personnel Act of 1991House: 399–0Senate: no recorded tally
- Department of Veterans Affairs Codification ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend eligibility for burial in national cemeteries to persons who have 20 years of service creditable for retired pay as members of a reserve component of the Armed Forces.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act of 1994House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans' Benefits Improvements Act of 1996House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans Programs Enhancement Act of 1998House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Veterans Benefits and Health Care Improvement Act of 2000House: 417–0Senate: no recorded tally
- Veterans Benefits Act of 2003House: 399–0Senate: no recorded tally
- Veterans' Benefits Act of 2010House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018House: 256–167Senate: no recorded tally
- Veterans Benefits and Transition Act of 2018House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022House: 363–70Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024
- Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
- Keeping Military Families Together Act of 2024House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally