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HR 10395 118th Congress House

Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2024

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and carry out a pilot program to furnish a headstone or burial marker to veterans who died on or befor… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and carry out a pilot program to furnish a headstone or burial marker to veterans who died on or before November 1, 1990, and for other purposes.

Introduced: December 12, 2024 Introduced by: Kennedy, Timothy M. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
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 Latest action December 12, 2024

Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2024

This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish and implement a two-year pilot program to furnish, when requested, an appropriate headstone or burial marker to commemorate covered veterans. Covered veterans are veterans who died on or before November 1, 1990, and were released or discharged from service under conditions other than dishonorable. Currently, these benefits are only available to eligible veterans who died on or after November 1, 1990.

The bill requires the VA to update the National Cemetery Administration website with respect to the requirements for eligibility for a headstone or burial marker. 

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 10395: Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2024. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-10395/
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"H.R. 10395: Honoring Our Heroes Act of 2024." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-10395/.
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H.R. 10395, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-HR-10395/.
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