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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Feb 26, 2025
This bill designates the Department of Agriculture U.S. National Poultry Research Center in Athens, Georgia, as the Abit Massey Poultry Research Center.
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Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1] · R–GA
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-02-26 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
The bill proposes renaming the Department of Agriculture’s U.S. National Poultry Research Center in Athens, Georgia, as the Abit Massey Poultry Research Center. It would also make references to the facility in federal laws, maps, regulations, and other federal records refer to the new name.
The U.S. National Poultry Research Center of the Department of Agriculture located in Athens, Georgia, shall be known and designated as the Abit Massey Poultry Research Center.
Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the Abit Massey Poultry Research Center.
The reference rule would treat existing federal references to the facility as references to its new name; it does not expressly require physically replacing documents, maps, or other records.
Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the Abit Massey Poultry Research Center.
The supplied April 7, 2025 source snapshot records introduction and referral to the House Committee on Agriculture on February 26, 2025, followed by referral to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry on March 20, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2025-04-07T18:21:25Z. 2025-03-20: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. 2025-02-26: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture. 2025-02-26: Introduced in House
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