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HR 4647Jul 15, 2026Passed Chamber

What a yes vote endorsed

Captain Paul W. Bud Bucha VA Medical Center Act of 2025

What this does

This bill renames the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in West Haven, Connecticut, as the Captain Paul W. Bud Bucha VA Medical Center. Any reference to that center in federal law, regulations, maps, or records is treated as a reference to the new name. The center is named for Paul W. Bucha, a Medal of Honor recipient who received care there. The bill makes no change to the center's operations, funding, or services.

Passed the House by voice vote

How we know · 4 sourced claims
  • The bill renames the VA medical center in West Haven, Connecticut, as the Captain Paul W. Bud Bucha VA Medical Center.Source: Sec. 3(a)
  • Any reference to that center in federal law, regulation, map, document, or record is treated as a reference to the new name.Source: Sec. 3(b)
  • The center is named for Paul W. Bucha, a Medal of Honor recipient who received care at that center.Source: Sec. 2
  • The measure concerns only the designation of a single VA medical center.Source: Sec. 3
Read the bill on congress.gov ↗

Reported lobbying

At least

1

organization named this measure in a lobbying filing.

A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 4 quarterly reports filed by 1 registered lobbying firm in 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so an organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. They carry no per-bill dollar figure and no position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

The organization named

  • DESERT WATER AGENCY

Listed as filed. It is every client name on the filings counted here.

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 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.