Mount Rushmore Protection Act

Mount Rushmore Protection Act

This bill prohibits the use of any federal funds to alter, change, destroy, or remove any name, face, or other feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota and designates Mount Rushmore.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 386 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 386

   To provide that no Federal funds shall be used to alter, change, 
   destroy, or remove, in whole or in part, any name, face, or other 
            feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 17, 2023

 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself, Mr. Guest, Mr. Mooney, Mr. 
 LaMalfa, Mr. Banks, Ms. Mace, Mr. Stewart, Mr. Nehls, Mrs. Radewagen, 
 and Ms. Tenney) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide that no Federal funds shall be used to alter, change, 
   destroy, or remove, in whole or in part, any name, face, or other 
            feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

    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 ``Mount Rushmore Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Mount Rushmore National Memorial is America's Shrine of 
        Democracy.
            (2) The Mount Rushmore National Memorial depicts the faces 
        of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore 
        Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, with the beauty of the Black 
        Hills of South Dakota.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS.

    No Federal funds shall be used to alter, change, destroy, or 
remove, in whole or in part, any name, face, or other feature on the 
Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

SEC. 4. DESIGNATION OF MOUNT RUSHMORE.

    (a) In General.--The mountain at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, 
located at N 43 53.559' W 103 28.246', shall be known and designated 
as ``Mount Rushmore''.
    (b) References.--Any reference in any law, map, regulation, order, 
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the mountain 
and area described in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference 
to ``Mount Rushmore''.
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