119th Congress > House > Vote 268

Date: September 16, 2025

Result: 413-0 (Passed)

Clerk session vote number: 269

Sponsor: KENNEDY, Timothy M. (D-NY)

Bill number: HR2721

Question: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

Description: Honoring our Heroes Act

Bill 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. 



Bill titles: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and carry out a pilot program to furnish a headstone or burial marker to veterans who died on or before November 1, 1990, and for other purposes.

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