Prohibit Partisan Park Passes Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3735 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3735

 To amend the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to prohibit the 
    use of the image of living political figures on the America the 
   Beautiful--the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 29, 2026

   Mr. Merkley (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Padilla, Ms. Blunt 
     Rochester, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Bennet, and Mr. Booker) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
               Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to prohibit the 
    use of the image of living political figures on the America the 
   Beautiful--the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass.

    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 ``Prohibit Partisan Park Passes Act''.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTION ON USE OF IMAGES FOR THE AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL--THE 
              NATIONAL PARKS AND FEDERAL RECREATIONAL LANDS PASS.

    Section 805(a)(2) of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act 
(16 U.S.C. 6804(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) in the paragraph heading, by striking ``competition''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following: ``The image used on 
        the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass may not 
        include a living current or former elected official or other 
        living political figure.''.
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