H.R. 803 119th Congress House

Sergeant Gary Beikirch Medal of Honor Act

Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to allow a surviving spouse of a Medal of Honor recipient to receive a special pension concurrently with dependency and … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to allow a surviving spouse of a Medal of Honor recipient to receive a special pension concurrently with dependency and indemnity compensation, and for other purposes.

Introduced: January 28, 2025 Introduced by: Joseph D. Morelle Democratic · New York See on congress.gov

Armed Forces and National Security Conflicts and warsVeterans' organizations and recognitionVeterans' pensions and compensation

Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps

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Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Mar 4, 2025

Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

Jan 28, 2025

Introduced in House

Jan 28, 2025

Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.

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Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Sergeant Gary Beikirch Medal of Honor Act

This bill allows a surviving spouse of a Medal of Honor recipient to receive a special pension concurrently with dependency and indemnity compensation.

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Committees of jurisdiction 2

Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee
House of Representatives · subcommittee of Veterans' Affairs Committee
Veterans' Affairs Committee
House of Representatives

Lobbying activity 4

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
for DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS · District of Columbia · 3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30)
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
for DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS · District of Columbia · 2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30)
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
for DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS · District of Columbia · 1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
for DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS · District of Columbia · 4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31)

Bodies those filers lobbied

Defense, Dept of (DOD)
4 filings
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
4 filings
Labor, Dept of (DOL)
4 filings
Office of Management & Budget (OMB)
4 filings
SENATE
4 filings
Small Business Administration (SBA)
4 filings
U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
4 filings
Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA)
4 filings

A filing lists the bills it worked on and the parts of government it contacted in separate sections, so these are the bodies those filers named anywhere in the filing, not a per-bill breakdown.

Cosponsors 5

Salinas, Andrea

Oregon · Apr 9, 2026

Lawler, Michael

New York · Jan 31, 2025

Kennedy, Timothy M.

New York · Jan 28, 2025

Moore, Gwen

Wisconsin · Jan 28, 2025

Tenney, Claudia

New York · Jan 28, 2025

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 803: Sergeant Gary Beikirch Medal of Honor Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-803/

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"H.R. 803: Sergeant Gary Beikirch Medal of Honor Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-803/.

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