House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
American Flags to Honor Our Veterans Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 4, United States Code, to allow for cemetery flags to be displayed in an upright position directly adjacent to the grave sites of deceased members of the Armed Forces or veterans, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Bryan Steil R-WIWhere it went
- IntroducedJun 12, 2025
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- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
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- Became law—
Latest action: Jun 12, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 3999.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. STEIL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 101, June 12, 2025, Page H2823):Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 12, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 116 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 3999, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/3999
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- September 19, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 24, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
ec80df4f66440b428265f653f83c6796275842aa43be02476b11189312eb99a4
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 September 19, 2026). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
11 cosponsors — 6 Republicans, 5 Democrats
5 of 11 cosponsors (45%) are from the other party.
Jack Bergman (R-MI), Mike Bost (R-IL), Donald Davis (D-NC), Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), David Joyce (R-OH), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Bryan Steil.
- H.R. 7008 (119th) Stop Insider Trading Act
- H.R. 4430 (119th) Expanding WKSI Eligibility Act
- H.R. 8364 (119th) To amend title 5, United States Code, to authorize the increase of the retirement age in the United States Capitol Police.
- H.Res. 198 (119th) Providing for the expenses of certain committees of the House of Representatives in the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress.
- H.Res. 308 (119th) Dismissing the election contest relating to the office of Representative from the Fourteenth Congressional District of Florida.
- H.Res. 309 (119th) Dismissing the election contest relating to the office of Representative from the Twenty-eighth Congressional District of Texas.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.