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<meta><dc:title>119 S 1596 ENR: To rename the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge located in the State of Texas as the “Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge”.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>S.</dc:type><docNumber>1596</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="119">One Hundred Nineteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="1">A T T  H  E F  I  R  S  T S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty five</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To rename the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge located in the State of Texas as the “Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge”.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d23939e62" identifier="/us/bill/119/s/1596/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d23939e72" identifier="/us/bill/119/s/1596/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="bold" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>FINDINGS.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="x99a00252-7d4d-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Congress finds the following:</chapeau><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y99a00253-7d4d-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/s/1596/s2/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>On June 17, 2024, 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was brutally murdered in Houston, Texas.</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y99a00254-7d4d-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/s/1596/s2/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>Two illegal aliens who were allegedly members of the Tren de Aragua gang have been charged with her murder.</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y99a00255-7d4d-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/s/1596/s2/3" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><content>On March 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14229 (<ref href="/us/fr/90/11585">90 Fed. Reg. 11585</ref>; relating to honoring Jocelyn Nungaray) renaming the area known as the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge to “Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge”.</content></paragraph>
<paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y99a00256-7d4d-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/s/1596/s2/4" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="4">(4) </num><content>Ms. Nungaray loved animals and, given the close proximity of her hometown of Houston, it is fitting that the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge be renamed in her honor.</content></paragraph>
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<section id="d23939e103" identifier="/us/bill/119/s/1596/s3" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="bold" value="3">SEC. 3. </num><heading>RENAMING OF ANAHUAC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.</heading><subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y99a02967-7d4d-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/s/1596/s3/a" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Renaming</inline>.—</heading><content>The Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge located in the State of Texas shall be known as the “Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge”.</content></subsection>
<subsection class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y99a02968-7d4d-11f1-9f1f-75bc427816d3" identifier="/us/bill/119/s/1596/s3/b" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">References</inline>.—</heading><content>Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the national wildlife refuge referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the “Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge”.</content></subsection>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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