[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
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[H.R. 8656 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.8656

                    One Hundred Seventeenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-two


                                 An Act


 
    To designate the clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs in 
        Mishawaka, Indiana, as the ``Jackie Walorski VA Clinic''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
    Congress finds the following:
        (1) Jackie Walorski was born August 17, 1963, in South Bend, 
    Indiana.
        (2) Jackie Walorski grew up in South Bend raised by her 
    parents, Martha, who worked at a local grocery store, and Raymond, 
    an Air Force veteran and firefighter who owned an appliance store.
        (3) Jackie Walorski graduated from James Whitcomb Riley High 
    School in 1981 and is an alumna of Taylor University.
        (4) Upon her graduation, Jackie Walorski worked as a reporter 
    for a television station in South Bend and later worked for local 
    chapters of the Humane Society and Chamber of Commerce as well as 
    served as a development officer for area universities.
        (5) In 2000, she and her husband Dean Swihart moved to Romania 
    and founded Impact International, a nonprofit foundation that 
    provided medical supplies and attention to impoverished children 
    while they served as missionaries there for four years.
        (6) In 2004, she was elected to the Indiana House of 
    Representatives and subsequently reelected to that office every two 
    years where she served three full terms in office.
        (7) In 2012, she was elected to the United States House of 
    Representatives and subsequently reelected to that office until her 
    death in a tragic car accident in 2022.
        (8) During her service in the United States House of 
    Representatives, she was a passionate advocate for all her 
    constituents, but especially veterans in the area.
        (9) During her service in the United States House of 
    Representatives, she served on the Committee on Veterans' Affairs 
    for two terms, during that time authoring the Veterans Mobility 
    Safety Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-256).
        (10) In 2017, through her persistent advocacy for area 
    veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs completed construction 
    of a medical clinic in St. Joseph County, Indiana, to meet the 
    needs of Michiana area veterans.
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF JACKIE WALORSKI DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
CLINIC.
    (a) Designation.--The clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
located in Mishawaka, Indiana, shall after the date of the enactment of 
this Act be known and designated as the ``Jackie Walorski VA Clinic''.
    (b) References.--Any reference in any law, regulation, map, 
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the clinic 
referred to in subsection (a) shall be considered to be a reference to 
the ``Jackie Walorski VA Clinic''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.