H.R. 276 · 119th Congress · Public lands and natural resources
Gulf of America Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · May 8, 2025
Roll call ↗211
206
Passed the House.
Passed the House on May 8, 2025.
Latest action: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 73
- IntroducedJan 9, 2025
- CommitteeApr 30, 2025
- Passed HouseMay 8, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 17
- all Republicans
- House committee
- Natural Resources
- Lobbying
- None read
- No filing read so far names H.R. 276
What it does
This bill renames the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, May 8, 2025
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This bill renames the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. It declares that any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, or other federal record to the Gulf of Mexico is deemed a reference to the Gulf of America. The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Chairman of the Board on Geographic Names, oversees implementation across federal documents and maps. Each federal agency must update its documents and maps to reflect the new name within 180 days of enactment.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
No organization named this measure in a lobbying filing we could read with confidence. That is not a finding that nobody lobbied it. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, and a reference that could not be pinned to exactly one measure is refused rather than guessed.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.