[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10196 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10196

              To rename Lake Ontario as ``Lake America''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 31, 2026

 Mr. Patronis introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
              To rename Lake Ontario as ``Lake America''.

    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 ``Lake America Act''.

SEC. 2. RENAMING OF LAKE ONTARIO AS ``LAKE AMERICA''.

    (a) Renaming.--Lake Ontario shall be known as ``Lake America''.
    (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 
paper, or other record of the United States to Lake Ontario shall be 
deemed to be a reference to ``Lake America''.
    (c) Implementation.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of the Interior, acting 
        through the Chairman of the Board on Geographic Names, shall 
        oversee the implementation of the renaming described in 
        subsection (a) with respect to each Federal document and map.
            (2) Requirement.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this section, the head of each Federal agency 
        shall update each document and map of the Federal agency in 
        accordance with the renaming described in subsection (a).
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