[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4510 Referred in Senate (RFS)]


109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4510


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 19, 2005

                                Received

                            January 27, 2006

  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration

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                                 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.

            Passed the House of Representatives December 19 
      (legislative day, December 18), 2005.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.