Protecting our Veterans’ Memories Act

This bill amends veterans' benefits to provide a $525 plot allowance (adjusted for inflation) to state or local governments operating cemeteries when a veteran's spouse, surviving spouse (including those who remarried), minor child, or unmarried adult child (under 23 in school) is buried there. It directly affects state and local cemetery operators by creating a new payment mechanism for eligible burials. The key provision requires the VA to pay this allowance to the cemetery owner, not the family, and applies to deaths occurring after the bill's enactment date. The amount is indexed for inflation but does not change existing burial benefits for veterans buried in national cemeteries.