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Ban on naming Navy ships for sitting President or VP
Bars the Secretary of the Navy from naming or renaming any Navy vessel after a sitting President or Vice President. Former officeholders remain eligible for ship-naming honors after leaving office.
- Population Scope Low The prohibition directly constrains only the Secretary of the Navy and bears on sitting Presidents and Vice Presidents — a population of at most three individuals at any given time.
- Budgetary Magnitude Low No funds are authorized, appropriated, or obligated by this bill.
- Legal / Regulatory Depth Medium Creates a new statutory constraint on the Secretary of the Navy's existing discretionary naming authority — a binding prohibition on a specific class of decisions, but narrow in scope rather than a broad substantive restructuring.
- Degree of Discretion Granted Low The bill removes rather than grants discretion, imposing a mandatory prohibition with no agency waiver authority or rulemaking delegation.
- Implementation & Enforcement Burden Low No new enforcement infrastructure, penalties, or compliance obligations are created; the prohibition is self-executing and applies to a single, narrow category of administrative decisions.
- Temporal Commitment High Persists indefinitely until Congress acts to repeal it.
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Summary
This bill would stop the Secretary of the Navy from naming or renaming a Navy ship after a person who is currently serving as President or Vice President of the United States. Once that person leaves office, naming a ship after them would still be allowed. The bill does not affect any other ship-naming decisions.
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Core Policy Mechanism Top 1
Ban on naming Navy ships for sitting President or VP
Bars the Secretary of the Navy from naming or renaming any Navy vessel after a sitting President or Vice President. Former officeholders remain eligible for ship-naming honors after leaving office.
- Population Scope Low The prohibition directly constrains only the Secretary of the Navy and bears on sitting Presidents and Vice Presidents — a population of at most three individuals at any given time.
- Budgetary Magnitude Low No funds are authorized, appropriated, or obligated by this bill.
- Legal / Regulatory Depth Medium Creates a new statutory constraint on the Secretary of the Navy's existing discretionary naming authority — a binding prohibition on a specific class of decisions, but narrow in scope rather than a broad substantive restructuring.
- Degree of Discretion Granted Low The bill removes rather than grants discretion, imposing a mandatory prohibition with no agency waiver authority or rulemaking delegation.
- Implementation & Enforcement Burden Low No new enforcement infrastructure, penalties, or compliance obligations are created; the prohibition is self-executing and applies to a single, narrow category of administrative decisions.
- Temporal Commitment High Persists indefinitely until Congress acts to repeal it.
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Core Policy Mechanism
Ban on naming Navy ships for sitting President or VP
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