Bill passed with wrong title about burial markers.
S. 1318 — Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act · Filed by Jerry Moran (R-KS) · 20 cosponsors · Introduced Apr 7, 2025 · Passed both chambers
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What it does
The bill's title says it fixes burial markers for fallen Jewish troops. The actual text does not mention that. Instead, it has two parts. One adds new rules for how the FBI can search Americans' data. One stops the Federal Reserve from making digital money. The bill passed both chambers of Congress.
Who it affects
The data search rules affect the FBI and people whose data the FBI searches. The digital money ban affects the Federal Reserve and people who might use digital money later.
One thing to notice
The bill's title does not match what is in the bill. The text covers data search rules and digital money, but the title talks about burial markers.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
20 cosponsors: 11 Democrats, 9 Republicans.
- Apr 7, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Apr 7, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs”
- May 21, 2025 — Hearing held · Congress.gov: “Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held”
- Jul 30, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably”
- Nov 20, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8399; text: CR S8399)”
- Apr 29, 2026 — Passed both chambers · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 235 - 191 (Roll no. 142).”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
6 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 7 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $408,376 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 15 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 82% of bills with any report.
Jerry Moran, who sponsored the bill, received $390,050 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Heritage Action for America — $140,000 in 1 report
- Jewish Federations of North America — $121,376 in 1 report
- Republican Jewish Coalition — $100,000 in 1 report
- Project on Government Oversight — $20,000 in 1 report
- Due Process Institute — $15,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Federal Reserve — The U.S. government agency that controls money and banking.
- digital money — Money that exists only as data, not as paper bills or coins.
- data search rules — Laws that control how the FBI can look at Americans' information.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (11,959 characters) on Jul 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,342 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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