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Loved Ones Interment Act

To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish headstones and markers for certain veterans for whom urns were previously furnished when such veterans are interred with other eligible individuals, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jun 4, 2025

Latest action (Jun 4, 2025) Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

Referred to
Veterans' Affairs Committee
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security

Summary
  • Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish headstones or markers for cremated veterans in addition to urns or commemorative plaques.
  • Authorization applies when the cremated veteran is interred at the same burial site as another eligible individual.
  • Allows the headstone or marker to include information about both the cremated veteran and the other eligible individual.
  • Requires that including information about both individuals does not increase the cost of the headstone or marker beyond the maximum amount permitted by law.

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Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor

Actions (3)
  1. Jun 4, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs. · house
  2. Jun 4, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. · house
  3. Jun 4, 2025 Introduced in House

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jun 4, 2025

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 4, 2025

Ms. Brownley introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs

A BILL

To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to furnish headstones and markers for certain veterans for whom urns were previously furnished when such veterans are interred with other eligible individuals, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Loved Ones Interment Act”.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS HEADSTONES AND MARKERS FOR CERTAIN CREMATED VETERANS INTERRED WITH OTHER ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

Section 2306(h)(2) of title 38, United States Code, is amended—

(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as clauses

(i) and (ii), respectively;

(2) by striking “If the Secretary” and inserting “(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), if the Secretary”; and

(3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph

(B):

“(B) In the case of a deceased individual referred to in subsection (a) who is cremated and for whom an urn or commemorative plaque is furnished under paragraph (1), the Secretary may also furnish a headstone or marker for the individual if—

“(i) the individual is interred at the same burial site as another individual referred to in section 2402(a) of this title;

“(ii) the headstone or marker furnished includes information about both such individuals; and

“(iii) the inclusion of such information does not increase the cost of the headstone or marker beyond the maximum amount permitted under law.”. <all>

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