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The bill provides clarity and consistent naming that helps military personnel and government recordkeeping, at the cost of modest one-time administrative expenses and some short-term transitional work across agencies.
Military personnel and their families will have a single, permanent official name for the installation, reducing confusion in orders, travel, benefits, and everyday communications.
Federal, state, and local agencies and mapmakers will have one authoritative name to use in documents, databases, and maps, simplifying recordkeeping and reducing inconsistent references across agencies.
Taxpayers and government budgets will face one-time administrative costs to update signage, documents, databases, and maps to reflect the official name.
Federal, state, and local agencies may experience short-term confusion or transitional issues if older or alternative names remain in some records, requiring time and effort to reconcile references.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Designates the Army installation in Fayetteville, NC, as "Fort Bragg" and requires all federal references to be treated as references to that name, effective on enactment.
Introduced February 11, 2025 by Keith Self · Last progress February 11, 2025
Designates the U.S. Army military installation located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, as "Fort Bragg" effective on enactment and requires that any federal law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper that references that installation be treated as a reference to Fort Bragg. The bill uses the statutory definition of "military installation" by reference to 10 U.S.C. § 2801 and applies to existing and future references after enactment.