{"format":1,"id":"119-hr-2721","congress":119,"number":"H.R. 2721","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and carry out a pilot program to furnish a headstone or burial marker to veterans who died on or before November 1, 1990, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and carry out a pilot program to furnish a headstone or burial marker to veterans who died on or before November 1, 1990, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Official Title from EH (Engrossed in House) bill text","title":"To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and carry out a pilot program to furnish a headstone or burial marker to veterans who died on or before November 1, 1990, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2025-04-08","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2025-09-16","vote":{"id":"119-2025-h269","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended","title":"Honoring our Heroes Act","result":"Passed","yea":413,"nay":0,"present":0,"not_voting":19,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll269.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"pending","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"not_yet","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.","date":"2025-09-17"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2025-04-08","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025"},{"k":"p","t":"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."},{"k":"p","t":"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."}],"words":103},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish headstones, burial markers, or medallions for certain veterans' graves for seven years after enactment, and extends a date in a law on limits on pension payments.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2721/text/eh#HDB624D4FDB44427EAC846286CA9A1905"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2721/text/eh#H3267DDC25F07492E8BF74FAE1572C8B8"}]},"core_areas":["Headstones, burial markers and medallions for veterans' graves","Limits on payments of pension under title 38"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, for seven years after the date of enactment, to furnish an appropriate headstone, burial marker, or medallion for a veteran who is eligible for burial in a national cemetery.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2721/text/eh#HDB624D4FDB44427EAC846286CA9A1905"}},{"text":"Limits this authority to a veteran who died on or after December 7, 1941, and whose grave has not already been given a headstone, burial marker, or medallion by the Secretary.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2721/text/eh#HDB624D4FDB44427EAC846286CA9A1905"}},{"text":"Directs the Secretary to furnish these items pursuant to section 2306 of title 38, United States Code, and without regard to section 8041(b) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–508).","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2721/text/eh#HDB624D4FDB44427EAC846286CA9A1905"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary, during the seven-year period, to ensure that the National Cemetery Administration website indicates the effect of the Act on eligibility for a headstone, burial marker, or medallion.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2721/text/eh#HDB624D4FDB44427EAC846286CA9A1905"}},{"text":"Amends section 5503(d)(7) of title 38, United States Code, by replacing the date \"November 30, 2031\" with \"February 29, 2032\".","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2721/text/eh#H3267DDC25F07492E8BF74FAE1572C8B8"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2025-09-16","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2721/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-09-29","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2721","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2721/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/119-hr-2721.png","v":"ec52a09192f8","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 2721, 119th Congress: Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025. House: 413 Yea, 0 Nay. Senate: not yet considered. Outcome: Passed House, 16 Sep 2025."}}