House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Committee action
Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025
Official title: To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the provision of certain additional burial benefits for individuals for whom an urn or plaque is furnished, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Rudy Yakym R-INWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 23, 2025
- Committee actionMay 6, 2025
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Oct 17, 2025 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 295.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 647.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 647, Ensuring Veterans’ Final Resting Place Act of 2025” on June 4, 2025. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on May 6, 2025”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, June 4, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61453
- CBO publication date
- June 4, 2025
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 647, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/647
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- February 4, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 119-343 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Veterans' Affairs Committee on October 17, 2025.Source: Congress.gov, reported October 17, 2025 ↗
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- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/119/HRPT/343
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 647, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/647
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- February 4, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- 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. 171, No. 14, January 23, 2025, Page H388):Article I, Section 8 of the United States ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 23, 2025 ↗
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- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 647, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/647
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- February 4, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
17 cosponsors — 5 Republicans, 12 Democrats
12 of 17 cosponsors (71%) are from the other party.
Sheri Biggs (R-SC), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Janelle Bynum (D-OR), André Carson (D-IN), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Josh Harder (D-CA), Mike Haridopolos (R-FL), Susie Lee (D-NV), Morgan McGarvey (D-KY), Max Miller (R-OH), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Aumua Amata Radewagen (R-AS), Jefferson Shreve (R-IN), Thomas Suozzi (D-NY), Gabe Vasquez (D-NM), Eugene Vindman (D-VA).
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Sponsor’s state and district
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