S. 5394 — Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act

This section prohibits the President, the Secretary of the Interior, and other federal officers from altering, changing, redesignating, or renaming the official geographic names of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.

This section nullifies Executive Order 14422, entitled “Honoring the American History of the Great Lakes and Renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America” and issued on August 27, 2026. It prohibits the President, the Secretary of the Interior, and other federal officers from implementing, administering, or enforcing that order or any substantially similar action, and bars the use of federal funds for those purposes.