May 8, 2025
Received; read the first time
May 12, 2025
Read the second time and placed on the calendar
To rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America
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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 Gulf of America Act
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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
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(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 reference to the Gulf of America
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(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 renaming 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 subsection (a).