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119TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 119-85
GULF OF AMERICA ACT
APRIL 30, 2025.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 276]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 276) to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of Amer-
ica, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an
amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Gulf of America Act.
SEC. 2. RENAMING OF GULF OF MEXICO AS GULF OF AMERICA.
(a) RENAMING.-The Gulf of Mexico shall be known as the Gulf of America.
(b) REFERENCES.-Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or
other record of the United States to the Gulf of Mexico shall be deemed to be a ref-
erence to the Gulf of America.
(c) IMPLEMENTATION.-
(1) IN GENERAL.-The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Chairman
of the Board on Geographic Names, shall oversee the implementation of the re-
naming described in subsection (a) with respect to each Federal document and
map.
(2) REQUIREMENT.-Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment
of this section, the head of each Federal agency shall update each document and
map of the Federal agency in accordance with the renaming described in sub-
section (a).
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