Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2024

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8854.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. YAKYM, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 108, June 27, 2024, Page H4410):
  Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: This bill would allow a veteran's survivor who chose to receive an urn or plaque in lieu of their veteran loved one's interred at a VA National Cemetery, to subsequently have the veteran interred at a VA National Cemetery if they pay the expense of that urn or plaque.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 27, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

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  367 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8854, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8854

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  0ef13608ba58caefee47b95cf581b638e67cccca1486a07d324083eb4a86b7a7

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

From the Congress.gov bill record for H.R. 8854, last updated May 27, 2025. PORKER’s copy was retrieved September 14, 2026 and is refreshed nightly. Open “Evidence” on any line for the record, field and file fingerprint.