H.R. 2721: Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025

119th Congress · introduced 2025-04-08 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025

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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.

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Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025

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Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Timothy M. [D-NY-26] · 0 cosponsors

Money: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 2721, Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025 (2025-09-05) No linked contracts or vendors yet.

Recorded votes

House roll call 269 (2025): On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended, H R 2721 (2025-09-16): Passed

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Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-119hr2721.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/119/hr>

Record fed-us-cong119-hr2721 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong119 · updated 2026-11-03 by psicol fed-bills