Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025
Latest action: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. · Mar 18, 2026
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Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025 This bill provides that the provision of an urn or commemorative plaque does not prohibit an individual from receiving a headstone or marker or other burial benefits (i.e., interment at a national cemetery) from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Under current law, individuals who request an urn or plaque do so in lieu of being furnished a headstone or burial benefit.
Source: Congressional Research Service (CRS).
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