United StatesHonoring Our Heroes Act of 2025
What it does
This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish and implement a two-year pilot program to furnish, when requested, an appropriate headstone or burial marker to commemorate covered veterans. Covered veterans are veterans who died on or before November 1, 1990, and were released or discharged from service under conditions other than dishonorable. Currently, these benefits are only available to eligible veterans who died on or after November 1, 1990.
More detail
The bill requires the VA to update the National Cemetery Administration website with respect to the requirements for eligibility for a headstone or burial marker.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Sep 17Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.Latest
- Sep 16Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4330)
- Vote recorded On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Result: Passed.House
- Sep 16Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 413 - 0 (Roll no. 269). (text: 09/16/2026 CR H4286)Passed House
- Sep 16Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Sep 15Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-274.
- Sep 15Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 230.
- Sep 15Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Sep 15Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4286)
- Sep 15DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2721.
- Sep 15At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
- Jul 23Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jul 23Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
- Jul 3Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Discharged
- Jun 24Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Apr 22Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
- Apr 8Introduced in House
- Apr 8Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.Introduced