Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2024
H.R. 8854118th Congress

Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2024

Introduced in the HouseRep. Rudy Yakym (R-IN-2)6 sections · 1 min read
Version: ih · Apr 20, 2026

Section 1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2024.

Section 2. Department of Veterans Affairs provision of additional burial benefits when cost of urn or plaque is reimbursed

Section 2306(h) of title 38, United States Code, is amended—

(1) in paragraph (2), by striking If the Secretary and inserting Except as provided in paragraph (3), if the Secretary;

(2) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (5) as paragraphs (4) through (6), respectively; and

(3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new paragraph (3):

(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply with respect to an urn or plaque furnished under paragraph (1) on or after January 5, 2021, if a non-Department entity reimburses the Secretary for the cost of the urn or plaque.

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