Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025
Introduced Apr 8, 2025 by Rep. Timothy M. Kennedy
The House passed it. The Senate has to pass it before it can reach the President.
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.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service.
- Sep 17, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- Sep 16, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Sep 16, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 413 - 0 (Roll no. 269). (text: 09/16/2026 CR H4286)
- Sep 16, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 413 - 0 (Roll no. 269). (text: 09/16/2026 CR H4286)
- Sep 16, 2025Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4330)
- Sep 15, 2025At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
- Sep 15, 2025DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2721.
- Sep 15, 2025Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4286)
- Sep 15, 2025Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Sep 15, 2025Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 230.
- Sep 15, 2025Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-274.
- Jul 23, 2025Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
- Jul 23, 2025Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Jul 3, 2025Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Discharged
- Jun 24, 2025Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Apr 22, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
- Apr 8, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- Apr 8, 2025Introduced in House