Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025 passed the House 161 days after introduction and awaits a vote in the Senate
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Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025 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. 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.
- Committees
- House Veterans' Affairs Committee
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee - Policy area
- Armed Forces and National Security: 268 of 6,567 bills became law, 113th–118th (4.1%)
- Sponsor
- 0 of 34 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 4, from introduced in house to referred in senate · 191 words
- Subjects
- Cemeteries and funeralsGovernment information and archivesInternet, web applications, social mediaVeterans' organizations and recognition
- Latest action
- Sep 17, 2025: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
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