House Study Bill 578 - Introduced HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS BILL BY CHAIRPERSON CHAMBERS) A BILL FOR An Act relating to interment rights of certain veterans 1 and their spouses in cemeteries owned and controlled by 2 governmental subdivisions. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5086YC (5) 84 aw/sc

H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 523I.304, subsection 7, Code 2011, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 7. A cemetery owned and controlled by a governmental 3 subdivision shall adopt and enforce a rule allowing any 4 veteran who is a landowner or who lives within the governmental 5 subdivision to purchase an interment space and to be interred 6 within the cemetery. The rule shall also allow any veteran who 7 purchases an interment space within the cemetery to purchase an 8 interment space for interment of the spouse of the veteran and 9 shall allow the surviving spouse of a veteran interred within 10 the cemetery to purchase an interment space and be interred 11 within the cemetery. For the purposes of this section , 12 “veteran” means the same as defined in section 35.1 . 13 EXPLANATION 14 This bill requires that a governmental subdivision allow a 15 veteran who purchases an interment space in a cemetery owned 16 and controlled by the governmental subdivision to purchase 17 space for the veteran’s spouse and for the spouse to be 18 interred in the cemetery. The bill also allows the spouse of 19 a veteran already interred within such a cemetery to purchase 20 interment space for the spouse and for the spouse to be 21 interred in that cemetery. Current law only allows a veteran 22 to purchase an interment space for the veteran and for only the 23 veteran to be interred within the cemetery. 24 -1- LSB 5086YC (5) 84 aw/sc 1/ 1