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Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic Act
This bill designates the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Las Cruces, New Mexico, as the Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic.
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Rep. Vasquez, Gabe [D-NM-2] · D–NM
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-03-06 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.
H.R. 1964 would name the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Las Cruces, New Mexico, the Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic. The proposed name would take effect after enactment, and references to the clinic in federal records would mean the renamed clinic.
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.
Section 1 gives the proposal the short title “Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic Act.”
This Act may be cited as the Las Cruces Bataan Memorial Clinic Act.
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated December 11, 2025, records introduction and referral to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on March 6, 2025, followed by referral to the Subcommittee on Health on March 27, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2025-12-11T09:07:46Z. 2025-03-27: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. 2025-03-06: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 2025-03-06: Introduced in House
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