# 119-hr-647: Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025

119-hr-647, Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Yakym, Rudy [R-IN-2] (R-IN); status in_committee; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-04-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-647
- Congress: 119
- Title: Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-01-23
- Sponsor: Rep. Yakym, Rudy [R-IN-2] (R-IN)
- Cosponsors: 17
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-04-21

## Summary

**Broadens eligibility for VA burial markers and updates benefits for urns and plaques.** This bill removes a death-date limit that had blocked some veterans from receiving VA headstones and markers, reorganizes how the VA treats urns and plaques, and extends a pension-related deadline to give more veterans and families access to benefits. - Families and surviving relatives: Veterans who died before November 11, 1998 can now qualify for Department of Veterans Affairs headstones, markers, and burial receptacles because the bill removes that date restriction. - Survivors when an urn or plaque is provided: The bill authorizes additional burial benefits and reorganizes the related language. That change applies to individuals who die on or after January 5, 2021. - Veterans with pension ties: The law extends a statutory date in pension payment rules by replacing November 30, 2031 with May 31, 2033, lengthening the period for certain pension payment limits.

## Cosponsors (17)

- Rep. Biggs, Sheri [R-SC-3] (R-SC), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Radewagen, Aumua Amata Coleman [R-AS-At Large] (R-AS), 2025-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. McGarvey, Morgan [D-KY-3] (D-KY), 2025-04-01T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Budzinski, Nikki [D-IL-13] (D-IL), 2025-04-08T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Harder, Josh [D-CA-9] (D-CA), 2025-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3] (D-NY), 2025-05-19T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bynum, Janelle S. [D-OR-5] (D-OR), 2025-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Vasquez, Gabe [D-NM-2] (D-NM), 2025-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Miller, Max L. [R-OH-7] (R-OH), 2025-07-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lee, Susie [D-NV-3] (D-NV), 2025-07-21T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Vindman, Eugene Simon [D-VA-7] (D-VA), 2025-09-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA-19] (D-CA), 2025-09-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5] (D-NJ), 2025-09-02T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Shreve, Jefferson [R-IN-6] (R-IN), 2025-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Carson, André [D-IN-7] (D-IN), 2025-10-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Deluzio, Christopher R. [D-PA-17] (D-PA), 2025-10-03T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Haridopolos, Mike [R-FL-8] (R-FL), 2025-10-03T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- More VA grave marker access for families: benefit, low. If enacted, this would broaden who can get VA headstones, markers, and burial receptacles by removing an old death-date limit. It would also reorganize wording in subsection (h) and apply that subsection change for people who die on or after January 5, 2021. The bill does not create cash payments.
- VA pension limits extended to 2033: cost, low. If enacted, this would extend the date in law that keeps certain VA pension payment limits from November 30, 2031 to May 31, 2033. That would keep the existing payment limits in place longer for people subject to 38 U.S.C. 5503(d)(7). The change would take effect upon enactment.

## Related bills

- 119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
- 119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- 119-hr-2102: Major Richard Star Act
- 119-hr-6130: ASAP Act
- 119-hr-1422: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025
- 119-hr-979: AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-647 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/647)

## Related
- [119-hr-1262: Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1262)
- [119-hr-842: Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage A…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-842)
- [119-hr-2102: Major Richard Star Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2102)
- [119-hr-6130: ASAP Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6130)
- [119-hr-1422: Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1422)
- [119-hr-979: AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-979)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-647 (as of 2026-04-21).