# Prohibition of Interment or Memorialization of Persons Who Have Been Convicted of Federal or State Capital Crimes or Certain Sex Offenses
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2019-02-25 · Effective 2019-02-25 · 84 FR 5952
## Document
- **Document number:** 2019-03078
- **Category:** va-other
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 84 FR 5952
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 38
- **Publication date:** 2019-02-25
- **Effective date:** 2019-02-25
## Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) amends its national cemetery regulations prohibiting the interment or memorialization of certain persons who have been convicted of Federal or State capital crimes. This final rule incorporates the statutory prohibition against interment or memorialization in a VA national cemetery or VA-funded State or Tribal veterans' cemetery of a person who has been convicted of a Federal or State crime causing the person to be a tier III sex offender for purposes of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act; who, for such crime, is sentenced to a minimum of life imprisonment; and whose conviction is final (other than a person whose sentence was commuted by the President or Governor of a State). This prohibition was enacted as part of the Dignified Burial and Other Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 2012.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/02/25/2019-03078/prohibition-of-interment-or-memorialization-of-persons-who-have-been-convicted-of-federal-or-state)
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