To name the Department of Veterans Affairs multispecialty clinic in Marietta, Georgia, as the "Colonel Michael H. Boyce Department of Veterans Affairs Multispecialty Clinic".

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Honorific naming of an existing federal VA clinic in Marietta, Georgia. Within Congress's property and spending authority, restricts no rights, takes no property, and consolidates no new power. Fully constitutional.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  Congress has explicit authority to manage federal property and to provide for veterans as part of its military and spending powers. Authority includes Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 to dispose of and regulate federal property, and Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 to provide for the general welfare and support veterans facilities. Naming a VA clinic is within that authority and creates no new regula…
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  Naming a federal clinic infringes no right in Amendments 1-10. No restriction on speech, religion, press, assembly under First Amendment, no arms restriction under Second Amendment, no search under Fourth Amendment, no self-incrimination or taking under Fifth Amendment, and no reservation issue under Tenth Amendment. It is a purely honorific designation.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The bill restricts no personal conduct, property use, speech, labor, or belief. No person is required to do or refrain from doing anything with their own person or property. Government bears no burden here because no liberty is burdened.
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  This concerns a federal facility operated by the federal government. (1) An individual or family cannot name and administer a federal VA clinic. (2) A county or city cannot control federal property naming. (3) A state cannot designate federal property. (4) It does not consolidate new power upward; it exercises existing management of existing federal property under Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2, …
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  No deprivation of life, liberty, or property under Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause, no criminal process implicating presumption of innocence, and no taking of private property for public use under Fifth Amendment Takings Clause. No notice or hearing is required for an honorific facility name, and no compensation is owed.

Sources: Congress.gov: HR 5362 summary