[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2646 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2646

To amend the National Trails System Act to provide for the study of the 
     Emancipation National Historic Trail, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 17, 2019

  Mr. Cornyn 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 amend the National Trails System Act to provide for the study of the 
     Emancipation National Historic Trail, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Emancipation National Historic Trail 
Study Act''.

SEC. 2. EMANCIPATION NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL STUDY.

    Section 5(c) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(c)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(47) Emancipation national historic trail.--The 
        Emancipation National Historic Trail, extending approximately 
        51 miles from the Osterman Building and Reedy Chapel in 
        Galveston, Texas, along Texas State Highway 3 and Interstate 
        Highway 45 North, to Freedmen's Town, then to Independence 
        Heights and Emancipation Park in Houston, Texas, following the 
        migration route taken by newly freed slaves and other persons 
        of African descent from the major 19th century seaport town of 
        Galveston to the burgeoning community of Freedmen's Town, 
        located in the 4th Ward of Houston, Texas.''.
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