A bill to amend titles 10 and 38, United States Code, to improve benefits and services for surviving spouses, and for other purposes.
Summary
Love Lives On Act of 2025
This bill extends entitlement for various benefit programs and services for surviving spouses of deceased members of the Armed Forces or veterans.
The bill provides that the remarriage of a surviving spouse must not bar the furnishing of dependency and indemnity compensation or special pension benefits to such spouse.
Additionally, the Department of Defense may not terminate the payment of an annuity for a surviving spouse under the Survivor Benefit Plan solely because the surviving spouse remarries.
The bill also expands the definition of a dependent under TRICARE to include a remarried widow or widower whose subsequent marriage has ended due to death, divorce, or annulment.
Timeline
- Mar 18, 2026Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Mar 11, 2025Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held.
- Feb 5, 2025Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- Feb 5, 2025Introduced in Senate
Cosponsors (showing first 30 of 58)
- Sen. Warnock, Raphael G. [D-GA] D-GA
- Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] R-AK
- Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] D-NV
- Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] R-AR
- Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] D-NM
- Sen. Rounds, Mike [R-SD] R-SD
- Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA] D-PA
- Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] R-TX
- Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] D-HI
- Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX] R-TX
- Sen. Hickenlooper, John W. [D-CO] D-CO
- Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] D-RI
- Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV] D-NV
- Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] D-MA
- Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH] D-NH
- Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] D-CA
- Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI] D-HI
- Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] I-ME
- Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] I-VT
- Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] D-MD
- Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] D-DE
- Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] D-NH
- Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] D-MN
- Sen. Ossoff, Jon [D-GA] D-GA
- Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] D-NJ
- Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI] D-MI
- Sen. Alsobrooks, Angela D. [D-MD] D-MD
- Sen. Marshall, Roger [R-KS] R-KS
- Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN] R-IN
- Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] D-VA
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