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H.R. 2701: Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act

119th Congress · introduced 2025-04-07 · Armed Forces and National Security · Latest: Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 292.

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Official title

Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act

Plain summary

Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act This bill requires the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) to establish the Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Program to identify deceased members of the Armed Forces who were Jewish and buried in a U.S. military cemetery located outside of the United States under a marker indicating the member was not Jewish. The program must contact survivors and descendants of such members. The ABMC must seek to enter into a contract with a nonprofit organization to carry out the program during the first 10 fiscal years beginning after the date of enactment of the bill.

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Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act

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Sponsor: Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-25] · 41 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 2701, Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act (2025-08-08)

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Max L. Miller (R-OH), Daniel S. Goldman (D-NY), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Bradley Scott Schneider (D-IL), Laura Friedman (D-CA), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Craig A. Goldman (R-TX), Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY), Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Sarah McBride (D-DE), Laura Gillen (D-NY), Ed Case (D-HI), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Wesley Bell (D-MO), Abraham J. Hamadeh (R-AZ), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Nikki Budzinski (D-IL), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Don Bacon (R-NE), Seth Magaziner (D-RI), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ), Kim Schrier (D-WA), Nancy Mace (R-SC), Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), Daniel Meuser (R-PA), Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (R-NJ), Richard McCormick (R-GA), Ken Calvert (R-CA), David Kustoff (R-TN), André Carson (D-IN), Robert P. Bresnahan, Jr. (R-PA), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Kat Cammack (R-FL), Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN)

Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-25] reported raising $3.7 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Record fed-us-cong119-hr2701 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong119 · updated 2026-11-03 by psicol fed-bills