Sponsor
W. Greg Steube
Representative · R-FL
Representative · R-FL
The bill standardizes federal naming policy to restore names honoring American figures, at the cost of reducing agency discretion and potentially imposing renaming expenses on taxpayers.
Federal agencies and their employees will have a clear, consistent statutory mandate to restore names honoring American figures, creating a uniform naming policy across the federal government.
Federal agencies and their employees could face politicized constraints because converting an executive-order naming policy into law limits agencies' discretion over naming decisions.
Taxpayers may incur costs to replace signage, documents, and other assets if the law mandates renaming federal property.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Gives Section 2 of Executive Order 14172 the force and effect of law, making that executive provision statutory.
Makes a single provision of an existing Executive Order into law by giving Section 2 of Executive Order 14172 the force and effect of statute. In practice, this turns the executive-level directive about restoring names that "honor American greatness" into a binding law that federal agencies must follow once enacted.
Official title: To codify Executive Order 14172.
Introduced July 17, 2025 by W. Greg Steube · Last progress July 17, 2025