Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025
Officially: “Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025” Read the full text
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1Short title
This section says the Act may be called the Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2025 .
2Department of Veterans Affairs pilot program to furnish headstones and burial markers to covered veterans
This section would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, acting through the Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs, to establish and run a pilot program that furnishes an appropriate headstone or burial marker to commemorate a covered veteran when someone requests one. A covered veteran is a veteran, as defined in section 101 of title 38, United States Code, who died on or before November 1, 1990. A person who wants a headstone or marker for a covered veteran under the pilot program would submit an application to the Secretary, in whatever time frame, form, and with whatever information and assurances the Secretary considers appropriate. While the pilot program's authority is in effect, the Under Secretary would have to update the National Cemetery Administration's website with the eligibility requirements for a headstone or burial marker under the laws the Secretary administers. The Secretary's authority to run the pilot program would end two years after the Act becomes law.
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2. Department of Veterans Affairs pilot program to furnish headstones and burial markers to covered veterans (a) In general The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, acting through the Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs, shall establish and carry out a pilot program under which the Secretary shall furnish, when requested, an appropriate headstone or burial marker for the purpose of commemorating a covered veteran. (b) Applications An individual desiring to request a headstone or marker for the purpose of commemorating a covered veteran under such pilot program shall submit to the Secretary an application in such time, in such form, and containing such information and assurances as the Secretary considers appropriate. (c) Update to eligibility requirements During the period the authority to carry out the pilot program under this section is effective, the Under Secretary shall update the internet website of the National Cemetery Administration with respect to the requirements for eligibility for a headstone or burial marker under the laws administered by the Secretary. (d) Termination date The authority of the Secretary to carry out the pilot program under this section shall terminate on the date that is two years after the date of the enactment of this Act. (e) Covered veteran defined In this section, the term covered veteran means a veteran (as defined in section 101 of title 38, United States Code) who died on or before November 1, 1990.
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In the House.