To name the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, as the "Henry Parham VA Clinic".
This bill (HR 4955) names a Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, as the "Henry Parham VA Clinic." It directly affects the Monroeville VA clinic by changing its official name to honor Henry Parham, an African-American soldier who served in the segregated 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion during the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944. The bill makes no policy changes or funding adjustments - it only updates the clinic’s official designation and all references to it in government records to reflect this new name. The renaming commemorates Parham as the last surviving African-American combat veteran of the D-Day landings, who later volunteered at VA facilities in Pittsburgh.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jul 2023
Committee Review
Dec 2024
House Passage
Dec 2024
Senate Passage
Dec 2024
Signed into Law
Jan 2025
Introduced Jul 27, 2023
Signed Jan 2, 2025
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
17
Key actions
5
Committee
4
Jan 2, 2025
Signed into law
Signed by President.
executive
Dec 21, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7316)
upper
Dec 21, 2024
Upper · Passed
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
upper
Dec 21, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged by Unanimous Consent.
upper
Dec 17, 2024
Committee
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
upper
Dec 16, 2024
Lower · Passed
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7175-7176)
lower
Aug 24, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Jul 27, 2023
Committee
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
lower
Jul 27, 2023
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 16 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Summer L. Lee
DDemocratic
Co
Brendan F. Boyle
DDemocratic
Co
Brian K. Fitzpatrick
RRepublican
Co
Chrissy Houlahan
DDemocratic
Co
Christopher R. Deluzio
DDemocratic
Co
Daniel Meuser
RRepublican
Co
Dwight Evans
DDemocratic
Co
Glenn Thompson
RRepublican
Co
Guy Reschenthaler
RRepublican
Co
John Joyce
RRepublican
Co
Lloyd Smucker
RRepublican
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