[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2861 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2861

  To require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on and 
develop recommendations to increase the safety of visitors to units of 
                       the National Park System.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 14, 1999

    Mr. Green of Wisconsin introduced the following bill; which was 
                 referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on and 
develop recommendations to increase the safety of visitors to units of 
                       the National Park System.

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

SECTION 1. STUDY AND REPORT ON SAFETY OF VISITORS TO UNITS OF THE 
              NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM.

    (a) Study.--The Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a study on 
measures to improve the safety of visitors to units of the National 
Park System. In conducting the study, the Secretary shall give specific 
consideration to measures that are designed to protect such visitors 
from sexual assaults.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary shall transmit to Congress a report on the 
study conducted pursuant to subsection (a). The report shall contain 
specific recommendations for measures to improve the safety of visitors 
to units of the National Park System, including measures designed to 
protect such visitors from sexual assaults.
    (c) Unit of the National Park System Defined.--For the purposes of 
this section, the term ``unit of the National Park System'' has the 
meaning given that term in section 2(a) of the Act of August 8, 1953 
(Chapter 384; 16 U.S.C. 1c(a)).
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