[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1932 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1932

  To designate the diplomacy center of the Department of State as the 
     Colin Powell Center for American Diplomacy and to provide for 
  appropriate museum visitor and educational outreach services at the 
                                center.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2003

  Mr. Leach introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
  To designate the diplomacy center of the Department of State as the 
     Colin Powell Center for American Diplomacy and to provide for 
  appropriate museum visitor and educational outreach services at the 
                                center.

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

SECTION 1. THE COLIN POWELL CENTER FOR AMERICAN DIPLOMACY.

    Title I of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 is 
amended by adding after section 58 (22 U.S.C. 2730) the following new 
section:

``SEC. 59. COLIN POWELL CENTER FOR AMERICAN DIPLOMACY.

    ``(a) Designation.--The diplomacy center of the Department of 
State, located in the Harry S Truman building, is hereby designated as 
the `Colin Powell Center for American Diplomacy' (hereinafter in this 
section referred to as the `Center').
    ``(b) Activities.--
            ``(1) Support authorized.--The Secretary of State is 
        authorized to provide by contract, grant, or otherwise, for the 
        performance of appropriate museum visitor and educational 
        outreach services, including organizing conference activities, 
        museum shop services, and food services, in the public exhibit 
        and related space utilized by the Center.
            ``(2) Payment of expenses.--The Secretary may pay all 
        reasonable expenses of conference activities conducted by the 
        Center, including refreshments and reimbursement of travel 
        expenses incurred by participants.
            ``(3) Recovery of costs.--Any revenues generated under the 
        authority of paragraph (1) for visitor services may be 
        retained, as a recovery of the costs of operating the Center, 
        and credited to any Department of State appropriation.
    ``(c) Disposition of Center Artifacts and Materials.--
            ``(1) Property of secretary.--All historic documents, 
        artifacts, or other articles permanently acquired by the 
        Department of State and determined by the Secretary to be 
        suitable for display in the Center shall be considered to be 
        the property of the Secretary in the Secretary's official 
        capacity and shall be subject to disposition solely in 
        accordance with this subsection.
            ``(2) Sale or trade.--Whenever the Secretary makes the 
        determination under paragraph (3) with respect to an item, the 
        Secretary may sell at fair market value, trade, or transfer the 
        item, without regard to the requirements of subtitle I of title 
        40, United States Code. The proceeds of any such sale may be 
        used solely for the advancement of the Center's mission and may 
        not be used for any purpose other than the acquisition and 
        direct care of collections.
            ``(3) Determinations prior to sale or trade.--The 
        determination referred to in paragraph (2), with respect to an 
        item, is a determination that--
                    ``(A) the item no longer serves to further the 
                purposes of the Center established in the collections 
                management policy of the Center; or
                    ``(B) in order to maintain the standards of the 
                collections of the Center, the sale or exchange of the 
                item would be a better use of the item.
            ``(4) Loans.--The Secretary may also lend items covered by 
        paragraph (1), when not needed for use or display in the 
        Center, to the Smithsonian Institution or a similar institution 
        for repair, study, or exhibition.''.
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