119-S1116

Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025

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119th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 1116

1. Short title
2. Department of Veterans Affairs provision of additional burial benefits when an urn or plaque is furnished

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the "Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025".


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.