Sponsor
Keith Self
Representative · R-TX
Representative · R-TX
The bill provides clarity and a single authoritative name for an installation—benefiting service members and simplifying recordkeeping—at the cost of modest one-time administrative updates and short-term reconciliation work for government entities.
Military personnel and their families will have a single, permanent official name for the installation, reducing confusion in orders, travel, and benefits processing.
Federal, state, and local agencies, as well as mapmakers and recordkeepers, will have one authoritative name to use, simplifying documents, mapping, and interagency recordkeeping.
Taxpayers and government budgets (federal and local) may face administrative costs to update signage, websites, forms, databases, and maps to reflect the official name.
Federal, state, and local agencies could experience short-term confusion and extra reconciliation work where prior or alternate names remain in some records and systems.
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 use that name.
Official title: To require the name of military installation under jurisdiction of Secretary of the Army located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to be known and designated as Fort Bragg, and for other purposes.
Introduced February 11, 2025 by Keith Self · Last progress February 11, 2025
Designates the Secretary of the Army’s military installation located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, as "Fort Bragg" and requires that any federal law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper that refers to that installation be treated as a reference to Fort Bragg. The change takes effect on enactment and applies to existing and future references to the installation. "Military installation" is defined by reference to 10 U.S.C. § 2801.