Prohibition against interment or memorialization in the National Cemetery Administration or Arlington National Cemetery of persons committing Federal or State capital crimes

(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. 2411 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.