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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2164
To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into an agreement
with the Montgomery County Land Bank for the transfer of certain
land near Dayton National Cemetery to the Department of Veterans
Affairs, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH14, 2025
Mr. T
URNERof Ohio introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs
A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to enter into
an agreement with the Montgomery County Land Bank
for the transfer of certain land near Dayton National
Cemetery to the Department of Veterans Affairs, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Dayton National Cem-4
etery Expansion Act of 2025’’. 5
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SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF TRANSFER OF CERTAIN LAND 1
NEAR DAYTON NATIONAL CEMETERY TO DE-2
PARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. 3
(a) T
RANSFER.—Not later than 30 days after the 4
date on which the Montgomery County Land Bank makes 5
an offer to transfer to the Department of Veterans Affairs 6
the parcel of land described in subsection (b), the Sec-7
retary of Veterans Affairs shall begin the process of enter-8
ing into an agreement with the Land Bank to carry out 9
such transfer. Under any such agreement— 10
(1) the Land Bank shall agree to transfer to 11
the Department all right, title, and interest in such 12
parcel at no cost of the land to the Department and 13
for no consideration; and 14
(2) the Secretary shall agree to accept such 15
transfer— 16
(A) in order to use such parcel as a na-17
tional cemetery; and 18
(B) not later than three years after the 19
date on which the Land Bank offers to transfer 20
the parcel. 21
(b) P
ARCELDESCRIBED.—The parcel of land de-22
scribed in this subsection is the approximately 58 acres 23
of land located in Dayton, Ohio, across from Dayton Na-24
tional Cemetery, bound by the intersection of McCall St. 25
and South Gettysburg Avenue, the intersection of McCall 26
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Street and Resaca Avenue, the intersection of South Get-1
tysburg Avenue and U.S. Route 35 of the Interstate High-2
way System, and depicted on the map titled ‘‘Dayton Na-3
tional Cemetery Proposed Land Transfer’’ and dated Jan-4
uary 26, 2024, and labeled on the map as ‘‘Expansion 5
Area’’. 6
(c) R
ULES OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-7
tion shall be construed to— 8
(1) require or encourage the Secretary to ac-9
quire any parcel other than the parcel described in 10
subsection (b); or 11
(2) require or encourage the Secretary to enter 12
into any special agreement with an entity other than 13
the Montgomery County Land Bank. 14
(d) M
ONTGOMERYCOUNTYLANDBANKDEFINED.— 15
In this section, the Montgomery County Land Bank 16
means the land bank located at 130 W. Second Street, 17
Suite 1425, Dayton, Ohio 45402. 18
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