The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act is designed to hold teenage treatment centers and care facilities accountable

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President Joe Biden spent Christmas Eve signing 50 bills, adding a bill supported through Paris Hilton and designating the bald eagle as America’s national bird.

The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, backed by Hilton, a socialite and activist, is designed to hold teenage treatment centers and care facilities accountable. Hilton spent time on Capitol Hill promoting the measure.

This month, the Senate voted unanimously to support the bill, and it passed the House by a vote of 367 to 33. Biden signed the law Tuesday. Hilton, meanwhile, has expressed interest in possibly becoming an elected official.

Biden also signed legislation, through Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, as well as Minnesota Reps. Brad Finstad and Angie Craig, making the bald eagle the official bird of the United States.

“Bald eagles are a historical symbol of the United States representing independence, strength, and freedom,” the bill states, also noting that the bird “remains the leading insignia for all branches of the United States military.”

The co-chair of the National Eagle Center’s National Bird Initiative, Preston Cook, who helped push for the legislation, said in an earlier article this month that “the bald eagle symbolizes American ideals since its placement on the Great Seal in 1782. “Training”

“With this legislation we honor its historical role and solidify its position as a national bird and our national identity,” he added.

Other bills signed on Christmas Eve included the Stop Campus Hazing Act, which creates disclosure regulations at federally funded colleges, requiring them to report campus hazing incidents in their annual safety reports. Fraternities and sororities on campus participate in hazing as part of their pledge process. North Carolina State University found that more than a fraction of students engage in some form of hazing.

Biden signed two bills to rename local offices after network leaders in Texas and California. A post in Bastrop, Texas, will be renamed in honor of Master Sergeant Billy D. Waugh, a CIA intelligence officer and Army soldier who spent more than 50 years in U. S. service.

Meanwhile, a post office in San Francisco, California, will be renamed after the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

The president also signed a series of expenditures to rename federal buildings, such as the Department of Veterans Affairs Community Clinic in Lynchburg, Virginia, which is now the First Class Desmond T. Doss VA Private Clinic, The Hill noted. The Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been renamed in honor of the late Senator Jim Inhofe.

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