Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025”.
Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025
A BILL
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the provision of certain additional burial benefits for individuals for whom an urn or plaque is furnished, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Department of Veterans Affairs provision of additional burial benefits when an urn or plaque is furnished
In general— Section 2306(h) of title 38, United States Code, is amended—
in paragraph (1)—
by striking “In lieu of furnishing a headstone or marker under this section for” and inserting “In the case of”; and
by striking “paragraph (3)” and inserting “paragraph (2)”;
by striking paragraph (2); and
by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (5) as paragraphs (2) through (4), respectively.
Applicability— The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to an individual who dies on or after January 5, 2021.