This Act may be cited as the Bertie’s Respect for National Cemeteries Act.

(a) Responsibility of appropriate Federal official Section 2411(a)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking In the case and inserting (A) Except as provided by subparagraph (B), in the case; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (B) The appropriate Federal official shall take every reasonable action, including by searching public records, to ensure that a person who will be interred in a cemetery in the National Cemetery Administration or in Arlington National Cemetery is not ineligible for such interment by reason of this section.. (b) Authority To disinter Section 2(c) of the Alicia Dawn Koehl Respect for National Cemeteries Act (38 U.S.C. 2411U.S. Code — Title 38, Section 2411View official source on GovInfo note) is amended— (1) by striking this section and inserting subsection (a); and (2) by inserting after Arlington National Cemetery the following: on or after the date of the enactment of such section 2411 and the amendment made by subsection (b) shall apply with respect to any such interment or memorialization conducted.

(a) Disinterment of remains The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall disinter the remains of George E. Siple from Indiantown Gap National Cemetery. (b) Notification of next-of-Kin The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall— (1) notify the next-of-kin of record for George E. Siple of the impending disinterment of his remains; and (2) upon disinterment, relinquish the remains to the next-of-kin of record for George E. Siple or, if the next-of-kin of record for George E. Siple is unavailable, arrange for an appropriate disposition of the remains.