[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2070 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 2070


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 26, 2012

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to install in the area of the 
World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or 
  an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt 
     prayed with the Nation on June 6, 1944, the morning of D-Day.

    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 ``World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 
2012''.

SEC. 2. PLACEMENT OF PLAQUE OR INSCRIPTION AT WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL.

    The Secretary of the Interior--
            (1) shall install in the area of the World War II Memorial 
        in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an inscription 
        with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with 
        the Nation on June 6, 1944, the morning of D-Day;
            (2) shall design, procure, prepare, and install the plaque 
        or inscription referred to in paragraph (1); and
            (3) may not use Federal funds to prepare or install the 
        plaque or inscription referred to in paragraph (1), but may 
        accept and expend private contributions for this purpose.

SEC. 3. COMMEMORATIVE WORKS ACT.

    Chapter 89 of title 40, United States Code, (commonly known as the 
``Commemorative Works Act'') shall not apply to this Act.

            Passed the House of Representatives January 24, 2012.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.