RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 154 (HB 966) 2016 Regular Session Gisclair
Prior law allowed the Dept. of Veterans Affairs to charge a fee for burials in state veterans
cemeteries and to promulgate rules for assessing the fee.
New law authorizes a fee of $745 for burial in a state veterans cemetery and 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.
New law permits the department to use the funds generated from burial fees to pay costs
incurred in the operation of state veterans cemeteries.
Effective August 1, 2016.
(Amends R.S. 29:295(C))