Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act
Sponsored By: Senator Jerry Moran
Passed Senate
Summary
Correct misidentified graves of Jewish American servicemembers overseas. The law creates the Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Program at the American Battle Monuments Commission to identify covered members and work with survivors and nonprofits to correct markers that misrepresent a service member's religion or heritage.
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- Families and descendants: ABMC will identify covered members and contact survivors and descendants to offer corrections to headstones or markers that misrepresent religion or heritage.
- Nonprofit organizations: Each fiscal year ABMC must seek a one-year contract with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit to carry out the program, with each contract set at $500,000 and priority for groups with proven experience.
- Cemeteries and memory: The program runs for the first 10 fiscal years after enactment and targets U.S. military cemeteries overseas, addressing roughly 900 known cases of Jewish servicemembers buried under non-Jewish markers.
*Authorizes $500,000 per fiscal year for 10 years, totaling $5.0 million in authorized spending to fund annual nonprofit contracts.*
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Fix Jewish servicemember grave markers
If enacted, the bill would create the Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Program at the American Battle Monuments Commission. The program would run during the first 10 fiscal years after enactment. ABMC would seek a one-year contract each year with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit for $500,000. That contractor would identify Jewish service members buried in U.S. military cemeteries overseas under markers that say they were not Jewish. The program would contact survivors and descendants to correct those markers. The bill would authorize $500,000 per fiscal year to fund the work and give priority to nonprofits with relevant experience.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Jerry Moran
KS • R
Cosponsors
Jacky Rosen
NV • D
Sponsored 4/7/2025
Richard Blumenthal
CT • D
Sponsored 4/7/2025
John Cornyn
TX • R
Sponsored 4/7/2025
Elissa Slotkin
MI • D
Sponsored 4/8/2025
Adam Schiff
CA • D
Sponsored 4/9/2025
Thomas Tillis
NC • R
Sponsored 4/29/2025
John Boozman
AR • R
Sponsored 5/19/2025
Susan Collins
ME • R
Sponsored 5/21/2025
Ted Cruz
TX • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Raphael Warnock
GA • D
Sponsored 6/25/2025
Jim Banks
IN • R
Sponsored 7/10/2025
Patty Murray
WA • D
Sponsored 7/21/2025
David McCormick
PA • R
Sponsored 7/21/2025
Mazie Hirono
HI • D
Sponsored 7/29/2025
Maggie Hassan
NH • D
Sponsored 7/30/2025
Peter Welch
VT • D
Sponsored 9/2/2025
James Lankford
OK • R
Sponsored 9/9/2025
Jon Ossoff
GA • D
Sponsored 9/15/2025
Jon Husted
OH • R
Sponsored 10/7/2025
Ruben Gallego
AZ • D
Sponsored 11/19/2025
Roll Call Votes
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