    [United States Statutes at Large, Volume 128, 113th Congress, 2nd Session]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

    Public Law 113-256
    113th Congress

    An Act

    To name the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Waco,
    Texas, as the ``Doris Miller Department of Veterans Affairs Medical
    Center''. <>

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
    United States of America in Congress assembled,
    SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
    (1) On October 12, 1919, Doris Miller was born in Waco,
    Texas.
    (2) On September 16, 1939, Miller enlisted in the United
    States Navy as mess attendant, third class at Naval Recruiting
    Station, Dallas, Texas, to serve for a period of six years.
    (3) On February 16, 1941, Miller received a change of rating
    to mess attendant, second class.
    (4) On June 1, 1942, Miller received a change of rating to
    mess attendant, first class.
    (5) On June 1, 1943, Miller received a change of rating, to
    cook, third class.
    (6) On November 25, 1944, Miller was presumed dead by the
    Secretary of the Navy a year and a day after being carried as
    missing in action since November 24, 1943, while serving aboard
    USS Liscome Bay when that vessel was torpedoed and sunk in the
    Pacific Ocean.
    (7) Miller was awarded the Navy Cross Medal, Purple Heart
    Medal, American Defense Service Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Medal, and World War II Victory Medal.
    (8) Miller's citation for the Navy Cross said ``for
    distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and
    disregard for his own personal safety during the attack on the
    Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese forces
    on December 7, 1941. While at the side of his Captain on the
    bridge, Miller, despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the
    face of a serious fire, assisted in moving his Captain, who had
    been mortally wounded, to a place of greater safety, and later
    manned and operated a machine gun directed at enemy Japanese
    attacking aircraft until ordered to leave the bridge.''.
    (9) On June 20, 1973, the USS Miller (FF-1091), a Knox-class
    frigate, was named in honor of Doris Miller.
    SEC. 2. NAME OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER,
    WACO, TEXAS.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Waco, Texas,
    shall after the date of the enactment of this Act be known

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    and designated as the ``Doris Miller Department of Veterans Affairs
    Medical Center''. Any reference to such medical center in any law,
    regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the United States
    shall be considered to be a reference to the Doris Miller Department of
    Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

    Approved December 18, 2014.

    LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 4199:
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    CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 160 (2014):
    June 17, considered and passed House.
    Dec. 9, considered and passed Senate.