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House Judiciary Committee reports bill to move National Women’s Relief Corps charter and headquarters to Illinois
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Summary
The House Committee on the Judiciary voted to report H.R. 988 favorably, a bill that would amend Title 36 to change the National Women’s Relief Corps’ place of incorporation from Washington, D.C., to Illinois and designate Murfreesboro, Ill., as its principal office; the committee approved the motion by voice vote.
The House Committee on the Judiciary voted to report H.R. 988 favorably to the full House, advancing a proposal to amend Title 36 of the United States Code to move the congressional charter, place of incorporation and principal office of the National Women’s Relief Corps (WRC) to Illinois.
In an opening statement, the chair said, “H.R. 9 88 is a bill to amend title 36 of The United States code to move the place of incorporation and domicile of the National Women's Relief Corps to Illinois” and to move its principal office to Murfreesboro, Illinois. The chair described the WRC as “a nonprofit organization whose mission is to perpetuate the memory of those who sacrifice much and sometime all in the American Veil War” and said the organization now provides assistance to veterans and their families of all wars.
The ranking member, the gentlelady from Vermont, supported the measure and characterized it as an administrative update. She reviewed the WRC’s history—organized in 1883 as an auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic and congressionally chartered on 09/07/1962 under Title 36—and noted that the WRC relocated its headquarters and affiliated museum to the John A. Logan Museum in Murfreesboro, Illinois, in 2023. “This bill is simply a straightforward administrative fix,” she said, adding support for the change despite broader concerns she raised about cuts to veterans’ programs.
Procedurally, the chair called for the question on reporting the bill. The committee adopted the motion to report H.R. 988 favorably by voice vote; the chair announced, “the ayes have it,” and ordered the bill reported to the House. The committee set a two-day period for members to submit views, directed that the bill be reported as a single amendment in the nature of a substitute incorporating adopted amendments, and authorized staff to make technical and conforming changes.
The committee concluded its business and adjourned.
