General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6379
January Session, 2015 LCO No. 1934
*01934*
Referred to Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS
Introduced by:
REP. ALEXANDER, 58th Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 6379
January Session, 2015
LCO No. 1934
*01934*
Referred to Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS
Introduced by:
REP. ALEXANDER, 58th Dist.
AN ACT PROVIDING REIMBURSEMENT FOR INSTALLATION OF VETERAN GRAVE MARKERS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That part II of chapter 506 of the general statutes be amended to require that funds from the Soldiers, Sailors and Marine Fund be used to pay the costs associated with the installation of a veteran's grave marker even if such installation occurs later than one year after the death of such veteran.
Statement of Purpose:
To expand the current practice of providing reimbursement for up to one hundred dollars of costs for veteran grave installation incurred less than one year after the death of a veteran to one year or more in the rare cases where burial occurred more than one year after the death of the veteran due to slow processing by the federal Department of Veterans' Affairs, weather, cremation or other circumstance.