# 119-s-2479: Reserve Organization of America Charter Amendments Act of 2025

119-s-2479, Reserve Organization of America Charter Amendments Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] (R-TN); status introduced (as of 2026-09-24).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-s-2479
- Congress: 119
- Title: Reserve Organization of America Charter Amendments Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-07-28
- Sponsor: Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN] (R-TN)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-24

## Summary

**Recharters the Reserve Organization of America as a federally chartered corporation with defined purposes, powers, and limits.** This bill would rewrite the group's charter to set a military-support purpose, formal governance rules, exclusive name rights, and strict bans on for-profit activity and political contributions. - Members would have eligibility set by the corporation's constitution and bylaws and voting members or their agents would be allowed to inspect records for proper purposes with reasonable notice. - The governing body would be required to hold an annual meeting and would face strict conduct limits, including bans on issuing stock, prohibitions on loans or advances to officers or members, and joint liability for officers who vote for prohibited loans. - The charter would give the organization perpetual existence and broad authority to carry out its purposes, while granting exclusive rights to use the name, seals, emblems, and badges it adopts. - Administrative rules would let the governing body pick the headquarters, require complete accounting and meeting minutes at the principal office, and require a registered agent in the District of Columbia to accept service of process.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] (D-CT), 2025-07-28T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Federal charter for Reserve Organization of America: benefit, low. This bill would create the Reserve Organization of America as a federally chartered corporation with perpetual existence. It would say the group exists to support and promote U.S. military policy. The corporation would be able to take lawful acts needed to carry out those purposes. It would set its…
- Ban on officer loans and liability: cost, low. This bill would ban the Reserve Organization of America from making any loan or advance to an officer or a governing-body member. If such a loan were made, officers who participated and governing-body members who voted for or assented to it would be personally and jointly liable to the corporation…
- Limits on Reserve Organization money and politics: cost, low. This bill would bar the Reserve Organization of America from doing business for profit and from issuing stock. It would forbid the corporation from letting income or assets inure to or be distributed to its members. The bill would also stop the corporation and any members acting for it from contrib…

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- 119-s-554: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-s-2479 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2479)

## Related
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- [119-s-1748: Kids Online Safety Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1748)
- [119-s-1874: Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1874)
- [119-s-1792: AI Whistleblower Protection Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-1792)
- [119-s-2153: Open App Markets Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2153)
- [119-s-554: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-554)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-s-2479 (as of 2026-09-24).