Bill Text: IA HF2264 | 2011-2012 | 84th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to interment rights of certain veterans and their spouses in cemeteries owned and controlled by governmental subdivisions. Effective 7-1-12.
Sponsorship: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2012-04-05 - Signed by Governor. H.J. 764. [HF2264 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2011-HF2264-Enrolled.html
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AN
ACT
RELATING
TO
INTERMENT
RIGHTS
OF
CERTAIN
VETERANS
AND
THEIR
SPOUSES
IN
CEMETERIES
OWNED
AND
CONTROLLED
BY
GOVERNMENTAL
SUBDIVISIONS.
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
Section
1.
Section
523I.304,
subsection
7,
Code
2011,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
7.
A
cemetery
owned
and
controlled
by
a
governmental
subdivision
shall
adopt
and
enforce
a
rule
allowing
any
veteran
who
is
a
landowner
or
who
lives
within
the
governmental
subdivision
to
purchase
an
interment
space
and
to
be
interred
within
the
cemetery.
The
rule
shall
also
allow
any
veteran
who
purchases
an
interment
space
within
the
cemetery
to
purchase
an
interment
space
for
interment
of
the
spouse
of
the
veteran
if
such
a
space
is
available
and
shall
allow
the
surviving
spouse
of
a
veteran
interred
within
the
cemetery
to
purchase
an
interment
space
and
be
interred
within
the
cemetery
if
such
a
House
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2264,
p.
2
space
is
available.
For
the
purposes
of
this
section
,
“veteran”
means
the
same
as
defined
in
section
35.1
.
______________________________
KRAIG
PAULSEN
Speaker
of
the
House
______________________________
JOHN
P.
KIBBIE
President
of
the
Senate
I
hereby
certify
that
this
bill
originated
in
the
House
and
is
known
as
House
File
2264,
Eighty-fourth
General
Assembly.
______________________________
W.
CHARLES
SMITHSON
Chief
Clerk
of
the
House
Approved
_______________,
2012
______________________________
TERRY
E.
BRANSTAD
Governor
