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The bill relocates the National Woman's Relief Corps' legal domicile to Illinois and standardizes service of process there, improving jurisdictional clarity and legal procedures while shifting administrative compliance and reducing local D.C. convenience for some stakeholders.
The National Woman's Relief Corps (members and leadership) will be legally domiciled in Illinois with its principal office in Murphysboro, giving the organization a clear state-law jurisdiction and official location.
The Corps and parties interacting with it (plaintiffs, defendants, attorneys) will have service of process routed to an in-state agent and the Illinois Secretary of State, simplifying and standardizing how legal service is handled under Illinois procedures.
People or entities in Washington, D.C. who previously relied on D.C. officials for convenient local service may lose that convenience because the statutory contact shifts to Illinois officials.
The Corps may incur new administrative steps, registration, reporting, or compliance costs to operate under Illinois law, shifting some state-level administrative burden and potential expenses to the organization.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Moves the National Woman’s Relief Corps’ legal domicile to Illinois, sets its principal office in Murphysboro, and makes the Illinois Secretary of State the office for service of process.
Introduced February 5, 2025 by Mike Bost · Last progress February 3, 2026
Moves the legal domicile and official location of the National Woman’s Relief Corps from the District of Columbia to the State of Illinois and designates its principal office in Murphysboro, Illinois. It also requires the organization to have a designated agent in Illinois and names the Illinois Secretary of State (or another office under Illinois law) as the office for service of process instead of the Mayor of the District of Columbia. No new funding, program authorizations, or deadlines are created; the change updates statutory references and service-of-process requirements to reflect the new state domicile and principal office location.