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HB 966 Original 2016 Regular Session Gisclair
Abstract: Provides for fees for burials at state veterans cemeteries and the use of funds generated
from burial fees.
Present law allows the Dept. of Veterans Affairs to charge a fee for burials in a state veterans
cemetery and to promulgate rules for assessing the fee.
Proposed law authorizes a fee of $745 for burial in a state veterans cemetery.
Proposed law allows the Dept. of Veterans Affairs to waive all or a part of the fee assessed for burial
in a state veterans cemetery in circumstances of financial hardship.
Proposed law permits the department to use the funds generated from burial fees to pay costs
incurred in the operation of the state veterans cemeteries.
(Amends R.S. 29:295(C))