S.Amdt. 262

SA 262. Mr. WELCH (for himself and Mrs. Capito) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1083. BURN PIT REGISTRY UPDATES.

(a) Individuals Eligible to Update.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
shall take actions necessary to ensure that the burn pit
registry may be updated with the cause of death of a deceased
registered individual by--
(A) an individual designated by such deceased registered
individual; or
(B) if no such individual is designated, an immediate
family member of such deceased registered individual.
(2) Designation.--The Secretary shall provide, with respect
to the burn pit registry, a process by which a registered
individual may make a designation for purposes of paragraph
(1)(A).
(b) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Burn pit registry.--The term ``burn pit registry''
means the registry established under section 201 of the
Dignified Burial and Other Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act
of 2012 (Public Law 112-260; 38 U.S.C. 527 note).
(2) Immediate family member.--The term ``immediate family
member'', with respect to a deceased individual, means--
(A) the spouse, parent, brother, sister, or adult child of
the individual;
(B) an adult person to whom the individual stands in loco
parentis; or
(C) any other adult person--
(i) living in the household of the individual at the time
of the death of the individual; and
(ii) related to the individual by blood or marriage.
(3) Registered individual.--The term ``registered
individual'' means an individual registered with the burn pit
registry.
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