[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 606 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]


        H.R.606

                       One Hundred Ninth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
            the fourth day of January, two thousand and five


                                 An Act


 
  To authorize appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior for the 
  restoration of the Angel Island Immigration Station in the State of 
                               California.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Angel Island Immigration Station 
Restoration and Preservation Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress makes the following findings:
        (1) The Angel Island Immigration Station, also known as the 
    Ellis Island of the West, is a National Historic Landmark.
        (2) Between 1910 and 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Station 
    processed more than 1,000,000 immigrants and emigrants from around 
    the world.
        (3) The Angel Island Immigration Station contributes greatly to 
    our understanding of our Nation's rich and complex immigration 
    history.
        (4) The Angel Island Immigration Station was built to enforce 
    the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and subsequent immigration laws, 
    which unfairly and severely restricted Asian immigration.
        (5) During their detention at the Angel Island Immigration 
    Station, Chinese detainees carved poems into the walls of the 
    detention barracks. More than 140 poems remain today, representing 
    the unique voices of immigrants awaiting entry to this country.
        (6) More than 50,000 people, including 30,000 schoolchildren, 
    visit the Angel Island Immigration Station annually to learn more 
    about the experience of immigrants who have traveled to our shores.
        (7) The restoration of the Angel Island Immigration Station and 
    the preservation of the writings and drawings at the Angel Island 
    Immigration Station will ensure that future generations also have 
    the benefit of experiencing and appreciating this great symbol of 
    the perseverance of the immigrant spirit, and of the diversity of 
    this great Nation.

SEC. 3. RESTORATION.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior $15,000,000 for restoring 
the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay, in 
coordination with the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and 
the California Department of Parks and Recreation.
    (b) Federal Funding.--Federal funding under this Act shall not 
exceed 50 percent of the total funds from all sources spent to restore 
the Angel Island Immigration Station.
    (c) Priority.--(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the funds 
appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be used for the restoration of 
the Immigration Station Hospital on Angel Island.
    (2) Any remaining funds in excess of the amount required to carry 
out paragraph (1) shall be used solely for the restoration of the Angel 
Island Immigration Station.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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