HR 2721 · Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- Introduced
- Apr 8, 2025
- Latest action
- Sep 17, 2025
- Sponsor
- Rep. Timothy M. Kennedy [D-NY-26]
- Policy area
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Cosponsors
- 0
Summary
Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025 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.
Recent actions
- Sep 17, 2025 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- Sep 16, 2025 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Sep 16, 2025 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, 2025 Passed/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, 2025 Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4330)
- Sep 15, 2025 At 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, 2025 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2721.
- Sep 15, 2025 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4286)
Votes
- On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended Passed · Sep 16, 2025, 6:49 PM