[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2791 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2791

 To permit each of the territories of the United States to provide and 
 furnish a statue honoring a citizen of the territory to be placed in 
 Statuary Hall in the same manner as statues honoring citizens of the 
                  States are placed in Statuary Hall.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 10, 2009

  Mr. Faleomavaega (for himself, Ms. Bordallo, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. 
  Pierluisi, and Mr. Sablan) introduced the following bill; which was 
           referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
 To permit each of the territories of the United States to provide and 
 furnish a statue honoring a citizen of the territory to be placed in 
 Statuary Hall in the same manner as statues honoring citizens of the 
                  States are placed in Statuary Hall.

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

SECTION 1. PLACEMENT OF STATUES OF CITIZENS OF TERRITORIES IN STATUARY 
              HALL.

    (a) In General.--Section 1814 of the Revised Statutes of the United 
States (2 U.S.C. 2131) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new sentence: ``For purposes of this section, the term `State' shall 
include American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin 
Islands, except that the number of statues which may be provided and 
furnished by each such jurisdiction may not exceed one.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment Regarding Procedures for Replacement of 
Statues.--Section 311 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 
2001 (2 U.S.C. 2132), is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c), by inserting after ``more than two 
        statues'' the following: ``(or, in the case of American Samoa, 
        Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the 
        Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin 
        Islands, more than one statue)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(f) For purposes of this section, the term `State' shall include 
American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin 
Islands.''.
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