House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
GRAVE Act
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for entitlement to a headstone or grave marker under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to certain members of a Reserve of an Armed Force, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Michael Lawler R-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedAug 8, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Dec 19, 2025 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4928.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. LAWLER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 136, August 8, 2025, Page H3688):Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the U.S. ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record August 8, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 56 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 4928, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/4928
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
26844a9c9bd834887c71a6f3f1b6f75f9a9f41aa7848fb80377d219d709a2c92
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 July 21, 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
No cosponsors.
More from the sponsor
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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.