Interment schedule availability at cemeteries under the control of the National Cemetery Administration

(a) In general The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall maintain, on the publicly accessible website landing page of the National Cemetery Administration, a spreadsheet or similar document displaying the most recent interment schedule availability for each operational cemetery under the control of the National Cemetery Administration. (b) Implementation The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall— (1) not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, make the spreadsheet or similar document described in subsection (a) available as required by such subsection; and (2) once every 30 days thereafter, update such spreadsheet or similar document. (c) Definition of interment schedule availability Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a proposed definition for the term interment schedule availability that— (1) generally means the number of business days between the establishment of a case for a deceased individual and the first availability for the interment of the individual; and (2) takes into account the ability to meet the family's preferred dates, days of the week, and times for scheduling the interment. (d) Report on historical data Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on data for interment schedule availability during the five-year period ending on the date on which the report is submitted. (e) Appropriate committees of Congress defined In this section, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— (1) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate; and (2) the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives.