Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025
HR 2721, the Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025, establishes a two-year pilot program for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide headstones or burial markers for eligible veterans. It directly affects families or representatives of veterans who died on or before November 1, 1990, by allowing them to request these markers through a VA application process. The program requires the VA to update its website with eligibility details and terminates two years after the bill's enactment. This is a procedural measure focused on commemorating specific veterans, not altering benefit eligibility or funding.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2025
Committee Review
Sep 2025
House Passage
Sep 2025
Senate Passage
President
Introduced Apr 8, 2025
Last action Sep 17, 2025
Floor votes · House Sep 16, 2025
How they voted
413–0
Passed · 19 other
Total votes 432
Sep 16, 2025
D
Democratic213
95% Yea
I
Independent1
100% Yea
R
Republican218
95% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
18
Key actions
5
Committee
7
Amendments
2
Sep 17, 2025
Committee
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
upper
Sep 16, 2025
Introduced
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)
lower
Sep 16, 2025
Lower · Passed
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)
lower
Sep 15, 2025
Introduced
Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
lower
Sep 15, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-274.
lower
Jul 23, 2025
Lower · Passed
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
lower
Jul 3, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Discharged
lower
Jun 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee Hearings Held
lower
Apr 22, 2025
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
lower
Apr 8, 2025
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
lower
Apr 8, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Timothy M. Kennedy
DDemocratic
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