3.0.0 2369 2026-04-06T19:33:51Z 2026-04-06T19:33:51Z Senate S S 2025-07-22 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2369 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing sseg04 National Parks Subcommittee Hearings By (subcommittee) 2025-12-09T18:13:17Z Referred To 2025-07-22T15:56:41Z Francis G. Newlands Memorial Removal Act 119 4608 HR 2025-07-22 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. Identical bill CRS 2025-12-09 sseg04 National Parks Subcommittee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. Committee 2025-07-22 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2025-07-22 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress V000128 Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] Chris Van Hollen D MD N Public Lands and Natural Resources District of Columbia 2025-12-17T16:59:20Z Members of Congress 2025-12-17T16:59:20Z Monuments and memorials 2025-12-17T16:59:20Z Museums, exhibitions, cultural centers 2025-12-17T16:59:20Z Racial and ethnic relations 2025-12-17T16:59:20Z Senate 2025-12-17T16:59:20Z Public Lands and Natural Resources 2025-08-01T15:14:40Z 00 2025-07-22 Introduced in Senate 2026-04-06T19:33:34Z Francis G. Newlands Memorial Removal Act

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to remove or permanently conceal the name of Francis Newlands on the grounds of the memorial fountain located at Chevy Chase Circle in the District of Columbia and take other specified actions.

Specifically, Interior must

  • remove the brass plaque bearing the name Senator Francis G. Newlands from the grounds of the memorial fountain located at Chevy Chase Circle in the District;
  • remove from the south end of the memorial fountain's face, the stone, tablet-like projection bearing the name of Francis Griffith Newlands and a related inscription;
  • remove or permanently conceal the name Newlands carved into the upper face of the memorial fountain's coping stones; and
  • offer the items removed to the descendants of Francis Griffith Newlands for a 60-day period, and if not claimed within that period, direct the removed items to be maintained by the National Park Service as federal property and accessioned into the Rock Creek Park museum collection.
]]> Francis G. Newlands Memorial Removal Act Display Title 45 Francis G. Newlands Memorial Removal Act 2025-12-10T12:03:19Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Francis G. Newlands Memorial Removal Act 2025-08-01T04:08:21Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to remove or permanently conceal the name of Francis Newlands on the grounds of the memorial fountain located at Chevy Chase Circle in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 2025-08-01T04:03:23Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-07-22T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s2369is/xml/BILLS-119s2369is.xml 2025-12-09 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.