HONOR Act of 2025

This bill aims to make the VA’s National Cemetery Administration more open and easier to use. It requires the VA to post an online spreadsheet that shows the most current burial scheduling availability for every national cemetery, update it every 30 days, and define what “interment schedule availability” means in plain terms, including how quickly a burial can be scheduled and how well dates match a family’s wishes. It also orders a report using five years of past data to show how long families have had to wait.

The bill also focuses on customer feedback. It encourages the cemetery system to keep taking part in a national customer satisfaction survey and to keep running and publishing its own surveys for veterans, families, and funeral homes. If the VA plans to stop the national survey or change its own surveys, it must tell Congress 30 days in advance.

• Who is affected: Veterans’ families, funeral homes, and people using national cemeteries.
• What changes:
  • An easy-to-find online schedule for burial availability at each cemetery, updated monthly.
  • A clear definition of “interment schedule availability.”
  • A report on wait times using the last five years of data.
  • Ongoing customer surveys, with advance notice before stopping or changing them.
• When:
  • Online schedule posted within 120 days of the law taking effect, then updated every 30 days.
  • Definition sent to Congress within 60 days.
  • Historical report due within one year.