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Standardizing the Marietta VA clinic's official name (while permitting alternative names) improves clarity and administrative consistency for veterans and providers but imposes modest one-time update costs and short-term staff workload to change materials and records.
Veterans who use the Marietta VA clinic (and the hospitals and VA staff serving them) will have an official, consistent clinic name with permitted alternative names, reducing confusion when seeking care and making referrals, signage, and administrative references easier to manage.
Taxpayers and the local VA facility will incur minor one-time costs to update signage, stationery, and digital materials to reflect the official and alternative clinic names.
VA staff and facility administrators will face short-term administrative and record-keeping burdens to update federal records and databases to reflect the name change.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Renames the VA multispecialty clinic in Marietta, GA, as the Colonel Michael H. Boyce VA Multispecialty Clinic and treats all federal references as referring to the new name.
Introduced September 15, 2025 by Barry D. Loudermilk · Last progress September 15, 2025
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic at 1263 Cobb Parkway NW in Marietta, Georgia, to be named the Colonel Michael H. Boyce VA Multispecialty Clinic, and requires that all existing federal references to the clinic be treated as references to the new name. The bill also records congressional findings summarizing Colonel Boyce’s life, military service, community work, public service, and death.