[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1644 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1644

  To clarify the status of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National 
         Historic Trail as a unit of the National Park System.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 27, 2017

 Mr. Cardin (for himself and Mr. Van Hollen) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To clarify the status of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National 
         Historic Trail as a unit of the National Park System.

    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 ``Captain John Smith Chesapeake 
National Historic Trail Parity Act''.

SEC. 2. CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH CHESAPEAKE NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL.

    Section 5(a)(25)(C) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 
1244(a)(25)(C)) is amended, in the matter preceding clause (i), by 
inserting ``as a unit of the National Park System'' after ``the 
Secretary of the Interior''.
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