# H.R. 249 (119th): This bill renames a trail and a park within Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park located in Paterson, New Jersey, in honor of Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr

This bill renames a trail and a park within Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park located in Paterson, New Jersey, in honor of Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. Specifically, it renames the Great Falls Scenic Overlook Trail Bridge as the Bill Pascrell, Jr. Scenic Overlook Trail Bridge. It also renames Overlook Park as Bill Pascrell, Jr. Overlook Park.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: commemorative_naming. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: public_lands. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: symbolic_designation. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 124: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill is a prudential, ceremonial honorific with no direct moral direction. It does not restrain evil or defend justice in a direct way, and it does not advance moral harm. The mixed classification reflects that it is an ordinary civil matter without a clear moral valence, not a finding of concern.
Theological note: The measure is a commemorative naming of public places honoring a former public servant. Scripture gives general warrant for honoring faithful service and for ordered public life, but the bill does not itself restrain or advance a moral harm. Its relevance is limited to ordinary civil honor, not to a substantive moral verdict.

## Recorded votes

Roll 124: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 362 · Nay 50 · Other 21.

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