# 119-s-1116: Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025

119-s-1116, Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN] (R-IN); status in_committee (as of 2026-07-15).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1116
- As of: 2026-07-15
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-1116
- Congress: 119
- Title: Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025
- Status: in_committee
- Introduced: 2025-03-25
- Sponsor: Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN] (R-IN)
- Cosponsors: 2
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-07-15

## Summary

**Clarifies and restructures how burial benefits for urns or plaques are described in federal law.** The bill would change the wording in 38 U.S.C. §2306(h)(1)(A), adjust a cross-reference from paragraph (3) to paragraph (2), remove the existing paragraph (2) and renumber the remaining paragraphs, and make those changes apply to individuals who die on or after January 5, 2021.

## Cosponsors (2)

- Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] (R-ME), 2025-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV] (D-NV), 2025-07-23T00:00:00.000Z

## Related bills

- 119-s-554: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025
- 119-s-4189: INSULIN Act of 2026
- 119-s-1552: Living Donor Protection Act of 2025
- 119-s-410: Love Lives On Act of 2025
- 119-s-237: Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025
- 119-s-4429: Connected Vehicle Security Act of 2026

## Sources
- [119-s-1116 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1116)

## Related
- [119-s-554: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-554)
- [119-s-4189: INSULIN Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4189)
- [119-s-1552: Living Donor Protection Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1552)
- [119-s-410: Love Lives On Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-410)
- [119-s-237: Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-237)
- [119-s-4429: Connected Vehicle Security Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-4429)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1116 (as of 2026-07-15).