Sponsor
Keith Self
Representative · R-TX
Representative · R-TX
The bill standardizes an installation's official name—helping service members and government recordkeeping—while imposing modest one-time administrative and transitional costs on government entities and taxpayers.
Military personnel and their families at the installation get a single, permanent official name, reducing confusion in orders, travel, and benefits.
Federal, state, and local agencies and mapmakers have one authoritative name to use, simplifying documents, recordkeeping, and mapping across agencies.
Taxpayers and government budgets may face administrative costs to update signage, databases, documents, and maps to reflect the official name.
Federal, state, and local agencies may experience short-term confusion or transitional reconciliation issues if older records or informal names remain in use.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Makes the Army installation in Fayetteville, NC officially and legally designated as “Fort Bragg” and requires federal references to use that name.
Designates the U.S. Army military installation located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, as “Fort Bragg” effective on enactment. It requires that any present or future federal law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper that refers to that installation be treated as referring to Fort Bragg, and it adopts the statutory definition of “military installation.”
Introduced February 11, 2025 by Keith Self · Last progress February 11, 2025