To designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lafayette, Louisiana, as the "Rodney C. Hamilton Sr. VA Clinic".
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill names the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Lafayette, Louisiana after Rodney Carroll Hamilton Sr. Congress finds that Hamilton joined the Marine Corps Reserve at age 17 while attending Lafayette High School, served in the Korean War, was wounded in combat in September 1951, received the Purple Heart, participated in the Marine Corps League, the Military Order of the Purple Heart, and the Veteran's Action Coalition of Southwest Louisiana, served as a Lafayette City Government elected official, helped secure and build the Lafayette VA outpatient clinic that opened in 2016, and died in 2020. After enactment, the clinic is known as the Rodney C. Hamilton Sr. VA Clinic, and all federal references to the clinic are deemed to use that name.
Who Benefits and How
Rodney Hamilton's family, Lafayette veterans, Purple Heart communities, and Southwest Louisiana veterans organizations benefit from federal recognition of Hamilton's military service, civic work, and role in securing the clinic. VA patients in Lafayette benefit from a clearer local honorific attached to the clinic they use. Local historical and veterans groups benefit because the federal name records Hamilton's Korean War service and community work.
Who Bears the Burden and How
VA facility administrators must update signage, websites, forms, maps, facility directories, contracts, and other records to use the Rodney C. Hamilton Sr. VA Clinic name. Federal records staff must ensure future legal and regulatory references use the new designation. Taxpayers may bear minor administrative and signage costs, but the bill does not change clinic services, eligibility, staffing, or benefits.
Key Provisions
- Requires the Lafayette VA community-based outpatient clinic to be known as the Rodney C. Hamilton Sr. VA Clinic.
- Provides federal recognition of Rodney Hamilton's Korean War service, Purple Heart, veterans advocacy, and role in securing the Lafayette clinic.
- Requires federal laws, regulations, maps, documents, papers, and records to treat existing clinic references as references to the new name.
- Preserves existing VA clinical services and veteran eligibility while changing the clinic designation.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Designates the VA community-based outpatient clinic in Lafayette, Louisiana, as the Rodney C. Hamilton Sr. VA Clinic and treats every federal legal, regulatory, map, document, paper, or record reference to that clinic as a reference to the new name.
Key Policy Areas
Veterans, Government
Primary Purpose
Designates the VA community-based outpatient clinic in Lafayette, Louisiana, as the Rodney C. Hamilton Sr. VA Clinic and treats every federal legal, regulatory, map, document, paper, or record reference to that clinic as a reference to the new name.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Rodney Hamilton family members
- Lafayette veterans
- Purple Heart communities
- Southwest Louisiana veterans organizations
- VA patients in Lafayette
Identified Costs
- VA facility administrators
- VA records staff
- Federal records staff
- Federal taxpayers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mr. Higgins of Louisiana (for himself, Mr. Johnson of Louisiana, …
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in House
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