Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025
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What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Mar 25, 2025)
Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025
This bill provides that the provision of an urn or commemorative plaque does not prohibit an individual from receiving a headstone or marker or other burial benefits (i.e., interment at a national cemetery) from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Under current law, individuals who request an urn or plaque do so in lieu of being furnished a headstone or burial benefit.
What just happenedMar 18, 2026
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in SenateMar 25, 2025
- Mar 18, 2026Committee
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Veterans' Affairs Committee - Dec 10, 2025Committee
Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
Veterans' Affairs Committee - Mar 25, 2025IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Veterans' Affairs Committee - Mar 25, 2025IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate