Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 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.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1116 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1116

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 25, 2025

Mr. Banks (for himself and Ms. Collins) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and 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 FURNISHED.

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