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Senate panel approves bill expanding burial eligibility at state military cemeteries
Summary
The Senate Veterans, Military and Homeland Security Committee voted to pass House Bill 53, which expands eligibility for burial in Georgia state military cemeteries to certain National Guard members and reservists who served on state active duty but were never federalized.
Senator Bonner, chair of the Senate Veterans, Military and Homeland Security Committee, presented House Bill 53 and a substitute that, he said, corrects language omitted in the House version.
The bill expands eligibility for burial in state military cemeteries to include National Guard members and reservists who performed state active duty or initial enlistments but were never federalized, and thus previously did not meet the state's eligibility rules tied to federal active-duty service or retirement. "There was a piece of federal legislation passed back in 2021 that allowed the states to do this," Bonner said, and the substitute amends state law to implement that option.
The measure makes the change retroactive to 1990, allows…
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