[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3412 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3412

  To redesignate the Richard H. Poff Federal Building located at 210 
Franklin Road Southwest in Roanoke, Virginia, as the ``Reuben E. Lawson 
              Federal Building'', and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 6, 2023

 Mr. Warner (for himself and Mr. Kaine) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
                              Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
  To redesignate the Richard H. Poff Federal Building located at 210 
Franklin Road Southwest in Roanoke, Virginia, as the ``Reuben E. Lawson 
              Federal Building'', and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Reuben E. Lawson Federal Building 
Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) Reuben E. Lawson dedicated his life and career to 
        promoting the ideals of equality and inclusion as a lawyer for 
        the Roanoke chapter of the National Association for the 
        Advancement of Colored People (commonly known as the ``NAACP'') 
        who actively worked to end segregation in Southwest Virginia;
            (2) arguing a number of significant cases in the Western 
        District of Virginia, Reuben E. Lawson fought to ensure the 
        enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 
        483 (1954), so that schools in the Roanoke region would be 
        fully integrated; and
            (3) Southwest Virginians are indebted to Reuben E. Lawson 
        for his important work in ending segregation, and it is fitting 
        that he be remembered in the current home of the court in which 
        he valiantly fought.

SEC. 3. REUBEN E. LAWSON FEDERAL BUILDING.

    (a) Redesignation.--The Richard H. Poff Federal Building located at 
210 Franklin Road Southwest in Roanoke, Virginia, shall be known and 
designated as the ``Reuben E. Lawson Federal Building''.
    (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 
paper, or other record of the United States to the Richard H. Poff 
Federal Building shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Reuben E. 
Lawson Federal Building''.
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