H.R. 5059: Love Lives On Act of 2016
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H.R. 5059: Love Lives On Act of 2016
114th Congress · introduced 2016-04-26 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2016-04-26 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-5] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Love Lives On Act of 2016
Plain summary
Love Lives On Act of 2016 This bill amends the definition of a veteran's "surviving spouse," for the purpose of veterans benefits provisions, to eliminate the requirement that such person: (1) has not remarried; or (2) has not, since the death of the veteran and after September 19, 1962, lived with another person and held himself or herself out to be the other person's spouse. The effective date of an award of specified veterans benefits to a surviving spouse based upon termination of a remarriage by death or divorce occurring before the date of enactment of this bill shall be the date of death, or the date the judicial decree or divorce becomes final, if an application therefor is received within one year of the remarriage's termination.
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Official text
Love Lives On Act of 2016
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-5] · 0 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114hr5059.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/hr>
Record fed-us-cong114-hr5059 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114