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(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on October 26, 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Dignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 2015
(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to study and report to Congress on matters relating to the interring of veterans' unclaimed remains in national cemeteries under the control of the National Cemetery Administration, including:
the scope of the issues relating to veterans' unclaimed remains, including the estimated number of such remains;
(Sec. 3) The Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 is amended to limit FY2016 awards and bonuses to $2 million for VA employees who are members of the Senior Executive Service.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 1338 as passed House amended on Nov 16, 2015. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Nov 16, 2015
Dignified Interment of Our Veterans Act of 2015
Passed · Two-thirds required
409 Yea 0 Nay 24 not voting
Crossed both parties No voting member broke with their own party.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 1338 and vote against it. 21 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 1338 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
27 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.