Locating Our Unclaimed Veterans Act

Sponsor: David G. Valadao (Republican-CA)May 21, 2026

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Creates a new system to help identify unclaimed veteran remains and find their families.

This bill would create a new system within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to help identify unclaimed veteran remains. It would gather information from coroners, funeral homes, and other government agencies. The goal is to make it easier to confirm if remains belong to a veteran and to find their next-of-kin.

What Would Change

Today, there is no single place within the Department of Veterans Affairs to track information about unclaimed veteran remains. If this bill becomes law, the VA would create a centralized system to gather and store this information from various sources, making it easier to identify veterans and notify their families.

Key Provisions

Creates a centralized system at the VA to store information about unclaimed veteran remains.
Allows the VA to request information from federal agencies like the Social Security Administration and FBI to help identify veterans.
Requires the VA to report annually for three years on how the system is working and how many veterans were identified.
Ends the new system for identifying unclaimed veterans on the last day of the third government budget year after the bill becomes law.

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Locating Our Unclaimed Veterans Act

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