Bill > S3871

This bill, the Rural Veterans Funeral Honors Reform Act of 2020, aims to facilitate the performance of funeral honors details for veterans. The key provisions of the bill are: 1. It requires the Secretary of Defense to provide a briefing to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees on a plan for the performance of funeral honors details by members of the Armed Forces other than the deceased's service, when members of the deceased's service are unavailable and the family requests such assistance. 2. It repeals the requirement that at least one member of the funeral honors detail must be from the same Armed Force as the deceased veteran. 3. It authorizes the use of members of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard to perform funeral honors details, and allows the remainder of the detail to consist of members of veterans organizations or other approved organizations. The bill aims to address challenges in providing funeral honors for veterans in rural areas where members of the deceased's Armed Force may not be available.

Military Affairs and Security

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3871/all-info