Bill Details
S.1179 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced Date
2025-03-27
Policy Area
Armed Forces and National Security
Committees
View committees (1)
Sponsors
7
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This bill would give the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Las Cruces, New Mexico, a new official name: the “Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic.” It is a naming bill, so it does not change the clinic’s services or eligibility rules. Instead, it simply changes the clinic’s formal name in federal records after the bill becomes law.
- The new name would apply to the VA community-based outpatient clinic in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
- Any future mention of the clinic in federal laws, rules, maps, documents, or records would refer to it by the new name.
Official Summaries
Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic Act
This bill designates the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Las Cruces, New Mexico, as the Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1179 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1179
To name the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of
Veterans Affairs in Las Cruces, New Mexico, the ``Las Cruces Bataan
Memorial Clinic''.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 27, 2025
Mr. Heinrich introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
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A BILL
To name the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of
Veterans Affairs in Las Cruces, New Mexico, the ``Las Cruces Bataan
Memorial Clinic''.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic
Act''.
SEC. 2. NAME OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMUNITY-BASED
OUTPATIENT CLINIC IN LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO.
(a) Name.--The community-based outpatient clinic of the Department
of Veterans Affairs in Las Cruces, New Mexico, shall after the date of
the enactment of this Act be known and designated as the ``Las Cruces
Bataan Memorial Clinic''.
(b) Reference.--Any reference in any law, regulation, map,
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the clinic
referred to in subsection (a) shall be considered to be a reference to
the Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic.
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