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HR 2721 · in committee · significant

Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • The VA must provide headstones or burial markers for eligible veterans who died before November 1, 1990.
  • Veterans discharged under honorable or other-than-dishonorable conditions are affected by this expansion.
  • A two-year pilot program will test the headstone furnishing process with no specific cost estimate provided.

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  1. 01

    How should Congress prioritize funding for retroactive headstones for pre-1990 veterans against other VA healthcare and benefits programs?

  2. 02

    What evidence supports the assumption that a two-year pilot program will adequately test headstone delivery for potentially thousands of eligible veterans?

  3. 03

    Which veterans currently lack access to headstones, and what barriers have prevented the VA from providing them until now?

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Sponsor · D-NY-26

Timothy M. Kennedy

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Introduced 2025-09-17

Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-09-17 · senate · IntroReferral

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

  2. 2025-09-16 · house · Floor

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  3. 2025-09-16 · house · Floor

    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)

  4. 2025-09-16 · Floor

    Passed/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)

  5. 2025-09-16 · house · Floor

    Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4330)

  6. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

    At 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.

  7. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2721.

  8. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4286)

  9. 2025-09-15 · house · Floor

    Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

  10. 2025-09-15 · house · Calendars

    Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 230.

  11. 2025-09-15 · house · Committee

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-274.

  12. 2025-09-15 · Committee

    Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-274.

  13. 2025-07-23 · house · Committee

    Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.

  14. 2025-07-23 · house · Committee

    Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  15. 2025-07-03 · house · Committee

    Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Discharged

  16. 2025-06-24 · house · Committee

    Subcommittee Hearings Held

  17. 2025-04-22 · house · Committee

    Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

  18. 2025-04-08 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

  19. 2025-04-08 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  20. 2025-04-08 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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