HR 2701
Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act
Summary
Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act This bill requires the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) to establish the Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Program to identify deceased members of the Armed Forces who were Jewish and buried in a U.S. military cemetery located outside of the United States under a marker indicating the member was not Jewish. The program must contact survivors and descendants of such members. The ABMC must seek to enter into a contract with a nonprofit organization to carry out the program during the first 10 fiscal years beginning after the date of enactment of the bill.
Bill status
- Status
- Passed House
- Sponsor
- Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL-25]
- Cosponsors
- 41
- Policy area
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Introduced
- 2025-04-07
- Latest action
- 2025-12-09: Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 292.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-12-09: Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 292.
- 2025-09-16: Received in the Senate.
- 2025-09-15: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-09-15: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4294)
- 2025-09-15: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H4294: 1)