HR2721Passed House

Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025

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Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
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Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-04-08
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Sponsor

Timothy M. Kennedy
Timothy M. Kennedy
Democrat · NY · Representative
Votes with party: 97.8% (651 recorded votes)

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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

2025-09-17

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Plain-English Summary

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.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

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Armed Forces and National Security
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