The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is the latest Florida agency to announce plans to implement the name "Gulf of America."

Sen. Joe Gruters filed a bill that would rename U.S. 41, which runs from Miami-Dade County to Hillsborough County, the "Gulf of America Trail."

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is the latest Florida agency to announce plans to implement the name "Gulf of America."

Florida lawmakers have introduced bills to rename the "Gulf of Mexico" as the "Gulf of America" in compliance with President Donald Trump’s executive order.

Sarasota, has filed Senate Bill 1058 to rename part of U.S. 41 commonly known as Tamiami Trail to "Gulf of America Trail."

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced it's adopting Donald Trump’s name change for the Gulf of Mexico. The new name will appear on all maps, documents and other FWC materials.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has announced a significant change, renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" in all official materials. This change is being implemented in accordance with President Donald Trump's Executive Order 14172 and FWC Executive Order 25-04.

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State lawmakers, who will start the annual legislative session Tuesday, also have filed bills to carry out Trump's directions.

Gov. Ron DeSantis was the first state official to embrace the new name in an executive order declaring a State of Emergency over a Winter storm last month. That order said the inclement weather was headed to Florida across the “Gulf of America.”

The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho de la Nueva España, and, finally Gulf of Mexico.