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Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic Act

To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Las Cruces, New Mexico, the ``Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic''.

Introduced Mar 6, 2025

Latest action (Mar 27, 2025) Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Referred to
Veterans' Affairs Committee
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security

Summary

This bill designates the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Las Cruces, New Mexico, as the "Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic." All references to the clinic in federal law, regulations, maps, documents, and records shall be updated to reflect the new designation.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor

Actions (3)
  1. Mar 27, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. · house
  2. Mar 6, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. · house
  3. Mar 6, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 1179 — Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic Act · Introduced Mar 27, 2025 · Cong. 119 90%
  • HR 2020 — New Mexico Rural Veteran Health Care Access Act · Introduced Apr 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 56%
  • HR 7511 — Iowa National Guard Heroes Commemoration Act · Introduced Mar 2, 2026 · Cong. 119 56%
  • HR 6007 — To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Newton, New Jersey, as the "Anthony "Tony" J. Gallopo VA Clinic". · Passed House Jul 16, 2026 · Cong. 119 55%
  • HR 4689 — To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Bloomington, Illinois, as the "Andrew Jackson Smith Medal of Honor Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic". · Introduced Dec 19, 2025 · Cong. 119 55%
  • HR 6963 — To designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Lafayette, Louisiana, as the "Rodney C. Hamilton Sr. VA Clinic". · Passed House Jul 16, 2026 · Cong. 119 54%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Mar 6, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 6, 2025

Mr. Vasquez introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs

A BILL

To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Las Cruces, New Mexico, the “Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic”.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic Act”.

SEC. 2. NAME OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMUNITY-BASED OUTPATIENT CLINIC, LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO.

The Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Las Cruces, New Mexico, shall, after the date of the enactment of this Act, be known and designated as the “Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic”. Any reference to such clinic in any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the United States shall be considered to be a reference to the Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic. <all>

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