Allows the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide burial benefits for veterans when an urn or plaque is furnished in place of a headstone or marker, for deaths on or after January 5, 2021.

Official title: Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025

Next stop Senate floor: awaiting a vote

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Senate

Introduced 25-MAR-2025

Referred 25-MAR-2025

Approved by committee 18-MAR-2026

Key points

Amends section 2306(h) of title 38, United States Code, to change when the VA may furnish an urn or plaque in place of a headstone or marker.
Replaces the phrase 'in lieu of furnishing a headstone or marker' with 'in the case of' and updates a cross-reference from paragraph (3) to paragraph (2).
Strikes paragraph (2) of that section and renumbers paragraphs (3) through (5) as paragraphs (2) through (4).
Applies to individuals who die on or after January 5, 2021.

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Official CRS summary

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Committee referrals (1)

Policy area

Armed Forces and National Security

Sponsor Jim Banks (R-IN) Cosponsors · 2

■ 1 R■ 1 D

1 Republican

1 Democrat

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