[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4145 Engrossed in House (EH)]


109th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 4145

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                                 AN ACT

To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to obtain a statue of Rosa 
Parks and to place the statue in the United States Capitol in National 
                 Statuary Hall, and for other purposes.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4145

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                                 AN ACT


 
To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to obtain a statue of Rosa 
Parks and to place the statue in the United States Capitol in National 
                 Statuary Hall, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. PLACEMENT OF STATUE OF ROSA PARKS IN NATIONAL STATUARY HALL.

    (a) Obtaining Statue.--Not later than 2 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Joint Committee on the Library shall enter 
into an agreement to obtain a statue of Rosa Parks, under such terms 
and conditions as the Joint Committee considers appropriate consistent 
with applicable law.
    (b) Placement.--The Joint Committee shall place the statue obtained 
under subsection (a) in the United States Capitol in a suitable 
permanent location in National Statuary Hall.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY FOR PLACEMENT OF STATUES IN NATIONAL STATUARY HALL.

    (a) Eligibility.--No statue of any individual may be placed in 
National Statuary Hall until after the expiration of the 10-year period 
which begins on the date of the individual's death.
    (b) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) does not apply with respect to--
            (1) the statue obtained and placed in National Statuary 
        Hall under this Act; or
            (2) any statue provided and furnished by a State under 
        section 1814 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (2 
        U.S.C. 2131) or any replacement statue provided by a State 
        under section 311 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 
        2001 (2 U.S.C. 2132).

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this Act, and any amounts so appropriated shall 
remain available until expended.

            Passed the House of Representatives November 18 
      (legislative day, November 17), 2005.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.