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The bill establishes an annual Lunar Landing Day to encourage education and public interest in space with symbolic benefits for students and communities, while imposing no new funding and only minor administrative burdens on schools and governments.
Students, educators, and schools get a recurring official "Lunar Landing Day" (July 20) each year, providing a predictable opportunity for classroom activities and instruction about the 1969 moon landing and space science.
Communities, organizations, and private citizens gain a patriotic and scientific observance that can boost public interest in space exploration and help encourage STEM engagement and career awareness.
Schools and state/local governments receive no new funding or program mandates, so any Lunar Landing Day activities must be supported with existing resources, which could strain tight school or municipal budgets and staff time.
Technical renumbering of statutory sections requires administrative updates to legal citations and references, creating short-term confusion and minor compliance or administrative costs for government and institutions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Designates July 20 as "Lunar Landing Day" in title 36 and renumbers chapter 1 sections in the U.S. Code to add the new observance.
Designates July 20 as "Lunar Landing Day" in the U.S. Code and updates chapter 1 section numbering in title 36 to accommodate the new entry. It encourages citizens, organizations, and federal, state, and local governments to observe the day with proclamations, activities, and education commemorating the July 20, 1969 lunar landing and promoting U.S. leadership in space exploration and science. Also performs technical renumbering and table-of-sections updates within chapter 1 of title 36, U.S. Code to relocate and redesignate existing commemorative and patriotic-day provisions so the new "Lunar Landing Day" can be inserted cleanly into the chapter structure.
Official title: Amend title 36, United States Code, to designate July 20 as Lunar Landing Day.
Introduced July 23, 2026 by Timothy Patrick Sheehy · Last progress August 20, 2026