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Earlier references to the refuge are deemed to use the new name

To rename the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge located in the State of Texas as the “Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge”, section 3, Sec. 3. Written by .

Earlier references to the refuge are deemed to use the new name

The document says “shall”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 3 in the PDF
What the document says

“shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge''.”

To rename the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge located in the State of Texas as the “Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge”, Sec. 3

Subsection (b). It provides that any reference to the refuge in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States is taken to be a reference to the new name. The subsection names no record and requires no record to be reprinted.

What the document actually says

“shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge''.”

To rename the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge located in the State of Texas as the “Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge”, Sec. 3
That sentence, in plain words

Old papers may still use the old name. Those words now mean the new name.

What this is about

This covers laws, maps, rules, files, and other records of the government. The new name holds even where old words stay in place.

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  1. The document itself

    Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge Act, Public Law 119-30, sec. 3, 139 Stat. 473 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ30/html/PLAW-119publ30.htm

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    “Earlier references to the refuge are deemed to use the new name,” Jocelyn Nungaray National Wildlife Refuge Act, section 3, Sec. 3. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/jocelyn-nungaray-national-wildlife-refuge-act/proposal/sec03-references-carry-over/ (retrieved October 10, 2026).

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