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The bill clarifies and standardizes the VA clinic name in Marietta—improving veterans' ability to find and be referred to care—while imposing only minor costs and short-term administrative work to update records and materials.
Veterans seeking care in Marietta will have a single official clinic name, reducing confusion and improving referrals and access to care.
Authorized alternative names let the VA facility be referenced in different but equivalent ways on signage and documents, giving local administrators flexibility and reducing the need for disruptive, immediate replacements.
Local signage, stationery, and digital materials will need updating to reflect the official name(s), imposing minor costs on the VA or taxpayers.
VA staff must spend administrative time updating federal records and databases, creating short-term workload and record‑keeping burdens.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Renames the VA multispecialty clinic at 1263 Cobb Parkway NW, Marietta, GA, as the Colonel Michael H. Boyce VA Multispecialty Clinic and updates federal references to the new name.
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic at 1263 Cobb Parkway NW, Marietta, Georgia, to be known as the Colonel Michael H. Boyce VA Multispecialty Clinic and requires that existing federal references to the facility be understood to use the new name. The bill includes congressional findings summarizing Colonel Michael H. Boyce’s birth, education, military and public-service record, community involvement, and death. The change is ceremonial and administrative: it renames the facility in law and updates legal and federal references so documents, regulations, maps, and other records referring to the clinic will reflect the new name after enactment.
Official title: To name the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, as the "Colonel Michael H. Boyce Department of Veterans Affairs Multispecialty Clinic".
Introduced September 15, 2025 by Barry D. Loudermilk · Last progress July 16, 2026