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Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025
SEC. 1. SHORT TITLETrack this section →
This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025.
SEC. 3. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL BURIAL BENEFITS WHEN AN URN OR PLAQUE IS PROVIDEDChangedTrack this section →
(a) In general Section 2306(h) Subsection (h) of title 38, United States Code, such section is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by striking In lieu of furnishing a headstone or marker under this section for and inserting In the case of; (2) by striking paragraph (2); (3) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (5) as paragraphs (2) through (4), respectively; and (4) in paragraph (1) by striking paragraph (3) and inserting paragraph (2). (b) Applicability The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to an individual who dies on or after January 5, 2021.
SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS HEADSTONES, MARKERS, AND BURIAL RECEPTACLES FOR CERTAIN INDIVIDUALSNew in this versionTrack this section →
Subsection (b)(2) of section 2306 of title 38, United States Code, is amended in subparagraphs (B) and (C) by striking who dies on or after November 11, 1998, each place it appears.
SEC. 4. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN LIMITS ON PAYMENTS OF PENSIONNew in this versionTrack this section →
Section 5503(d)(7) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking November 30, 2031 and inserting May 31, 2033.