To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Lubbock, Texas, as the "General Bernie Mittemeyer VA Clinic".
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill is a narrow veterans-facility naming measure. It renames the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Lubbock, Texas, as the General Bernie Mittemeyer VA Clinic. After enactment, any reference to that clinic in federal law, regulations, maps, documents, records, or other papers of the United States is deemed to refer to the General Bernie Mittemeyer VA Clinic. The bill does not change VA medical eligibility, benefits, staffing, or funding; its practical effect is commemorative recognition and administrative renaming across federal records.
Who Benefits and How
Veterans in the Lubbock area benefit from a clinic name that publicly honors General Bernie Mittemeyer. The Mittemeyer family and military community benefit from formal federal recognition attached to a VA health facility. The Lubbock VA clinic benefits from a distinctive statutory name that can be used in maps, documents, records, and public communications. Local veterans organizations benefit from a concrete commemorative site tied to military service in West Texas.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Department of Veterans Affairs administrators must update signs, facility records, maps, documents, and other references to the clinic. Federal records offices must treat old references to the Lubbock clinic as references to the General Bernie Mittemeyer VA Clinic. Federal taxpayers bear modest administrative renaming costs for signage and records updates. Clinic staff must use the new statutory name in public-facing materials after enactment.
Key Provisions
- Designates the Lubbock VA community-based outpatient clinic as the General Bernie Mittemeyer VA Clinic.
- Requires federal laws, regulations, maps, documents, records, and papers to treat the new name as the official reference.
- Provides commemorative recognition without changing veterans health benefits or clinic services.
- Directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to implement the naming change administratively.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Lubbock, Texas, as the General Bernie Mittemeyer VA Clinic and treats every federal reference to the clinic as using that new name.
Key Policy Areas
Veterans, Federal Facilities, Commemoration
Primary Purpose
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Lubbock, Texas, as the General Bernie Mittemeyer VA Clinic and treats every federal reference to the clinic as using that new name.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Veterans in Lubbock
- Mittemeyer family
- Lubbock VA clinic
- Local veterans organizations
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Federal records offices
- Federal taxpayers
- Clinic staff
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mr. Arrington introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in House
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