[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 120, 109th Congress, 2nd Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

120 STAT. 2912

Public Law 109-427
109th Congress

An Act


 
To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to accept the donation of a
bust depicting Sojourner Truth and to display the bust in a suitable
location in the Capitol.  NOTE: Dec. 20, 2006 -  [H.R. 4510]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

Congress finds as follows:
(1) Sojourner Truth was a towering figure among the founders
of the movement for women's suffrage in the United States, and
no monument that does not include her can accurately represent
this important development in our Nation's history.
(2) The statue known as the Portrait Monument, originally
presented to Congress in 1920 in honor of the passage of the
Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote and
presently exhibited in the rotunda of the Capitol, portrays
several early suffragists who were Sojourner Truth's
contemporaries but not Sojourner Truth herself, the only African
American among the group.
SEC. 2. ACCEPTANCE AND DISPLAY OF BUST OF SOJOURNER TRUTH IN
CAPITOL.

(a) Acceptance of Donation of Bust.--  NOTE: Deadline.  Not later
than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Joint
Committee on the Library shall accept the donation of a bust depicting
Sojourner Truth, subject to such terms and conditions as the Joint
Committee considers appropriate.

(b) Display.--The Joint Committee shall place the bust accepted
under subsection (a) in a suitable permanent location in the Capitol.

Approved December 20, 2006.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 4510:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
Vol. 151 (2005):
Dec. 18, considered and passed
House.
Vol. 152 (2006):
Dec. 6, considered and passed
Senate.