Small Cemetery Conveyance Act
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
2026-03-17
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Committee Activity
Currently in
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and ForestryReferred To · 2026-03-17
- House Committee on AgricultureDischarged From · 2026-01-14
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesReported By · 2026-01-14
Previously
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesMarkup By · 2025-12-17
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesDischarged from · 2025-12-17
- House Committee on AgricultureReferred To · 2025-07-02
- House Committee on Natural ResourcesReferred To · 2025-07-02
Plain-English Summary
Small Cemetery Conveyance Act This bill authorizes the Forest Service to convey, without a payment or exchange in land, a cemetery to a state government, local government, Indian tribe, or certain community land grant that has a bona fide interest or historic claim to the cemetery. This authorization applies to up to 40 acres of land that was used, or previously used, as a cemetery, including up to 1 acre adjacent to the land used as a cemetery. The conveyed land must continue to be used as a cemetery. If it is not used for that purpose, the Forest Service may revert the land and any improvements back to the United States. The Forest Service may waive certain conveyance costs upon the demonstrated need of a state government, local government, Indian tribe, or community land grant.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
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