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[H.R. 4510 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.4510

                       One Hundred Ninth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
             the third day of January, two thousand and six


                                 An Act



To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to accept the donation of a 
  bust depicting Sojourner Truth and to display the bust in a suitable 
                        location in the Capitol.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
    Congress finds as follows:
        (1) Sojourner Truth was a towering figure among the founders of 
    the movement for women's suffrage in the United States, and no 
    monument that does not include her can accurately represent this 
    important development in our Nation's history.
        (2) The statue known as the Portrait Monument, originally 
    presented to Congress in 1920 in honor of the passage of the 
    Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote and 
    presently exhibited in the rotunda of the Capitol, portrays several 
    early suffragists who were Sojourner Truth's contemporaries but not 
    Sojourner Truth herself, the only African American among the group.
SEC. 2. ACCEPTANCE AND DISPLAY OF BUST OF SOJOURNER TRUTH IN CAPITOL.
    (a) Acceptance of Donation of Bust.--Not later than 2 years after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Joint Committee on the 
Library shall accept the donation of a bust depicting Sojourner Truth, 
subject to such terms and conditions as the Joint Committee considers 
appropriate.
    (b) Display.--The Joint Committee shall place the bust accepted 
under subsection (a) in a suitable permanent location in the Capitol.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.