S.Amdt. 3254

SA 3254. Ms. MURKOWSKI submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 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 F of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1067. DISINTERMENT OF REMAINS OF MICHAEL ALAN SILKA FROM
SITKA NATIONAL CEMETERY, ALASKA.

(a) Disinterment.--Not later than one year after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs shall disinter the remains of Michael Alan Silka from
Sitka National Cemetery, Alaska.
(b) Notification.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may
not carry out subsection (a) until after notifying the next
of kin of Michael Alan Silka.
(c) Disposition.--After carrying out subsection (a), the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall--
(1) relinquish the remains to the next of kin described in
subsection (b); or
(2) if no such next of kin responds to the notification
under subsection (b), arrange for disposition of the remains
as the Secretary determines appropriate.
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