Emancipation Statue Removal Act

Emancipation Statue Removal Act

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to ensure that the Emancipation Monument is removed from Lincoln Park in the District of Columbia.

Interior shall donate the Emancipation Monument to a museum or other similar entity. The recipient of the Emancipation Monument may not store, display, or exhibit the monument outside, but if the monument is stored, displayed, or exhibited outside, ownership of the monument will revert back to the federal government.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7466 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7466

  To require the Secretary of the Interior to remove the Emancipation 
 Monument from Lincoln Park in the District of Columbia, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 1, 2020

Ms. Norton (for herself and Ms. Gabbard) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Secretary of the Interior to remove the Emancipation 
 Monument from Lincoln Park in the District of Columbia, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Emancipation Statue Removal Act''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF EMANCIPATION MONUMENT.

    (a) Removal.--The Secretary of the Interior shall ensure that the 
Emancipation Monument is removed from Lincoln Park in the District of 
Columbia.
    (b) Donation.--The Secretary shall donate the Emancipation Monument 
to a museum or other similar entity. The recipient of the Emancipation 
Monument may not store, display, or exhibit the monument outside. If 
the monument is stored, displayed, or exhibited outside, ownership of 
the monument will revert back to the Federal Government.
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