Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 647 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 647

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the provision of 
 certain additional burial benefits for individuals for whom an urn or 
              plaque is furnished, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 23, 2025

Mr. Yakym (for himself and Mrs. Biggs of South Carolina) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the provision of 
 certain additional burial benefits for individuals for whom an urn or 
              plaque is furnished, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Ensuring Veterans' Final Resting 
Place Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL BURIAL 
              BENEFITS WHEN AN URN OR PLAQUE IS PROVIDED.

    (a) In General.--Section 2306(h) of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``In lieu of furnishing a 
        headstone or marker under this section for'' and inserting ``In 
        the case of'';
            (2) by striking paragraph (2);
            (3) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (5) as 
        paragraphs (2) through (4), respectively; and
            (4) in paragraph (1) by striking ``paragraph (3)'' and 
        inserting ``paragraph (2)''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to an individual who dies on or after January 5, 
2021.
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