[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 130, 114th Congress, 2nd Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

 
2024 SUMMER OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES--CANDIDATE <> HOST SITE--LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Whereas the International Olympic Committee will meet on September 13,
2017, in Lima, Peru, to consider a site for the Summer Olympic and
Paralympic Games (in this preamble referred to as the ``Games'') in
2024;

Whereas the United States Olympic Committee has selected Los Angeles,
California, as the candidate of the United States for the 2024
Games;

Whereas the Games further the cause of world peace and understanding;

Whereas the country that hosts the Games performs an act of
international goodwill;

Whereas the Games have not been held in the United States since 1996;

Whereas many of the world-class venues to be used in Los Angeles' 2024
plan for the Games are already built or are planned as permanent
facilities; and

Whereas Los Angeles is positioned to deliver an innovative, fiscally
responsible, and sustainable Games: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),
That Congress--
(1) advises the International Olympic Committee that the
United States would welcome the holding of the 2024 Summer
Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles, California, the
site designated by the United States Olympic Committee;
(2) expresses the sincere hope that the United States will
be selected as the site for the 2024 Summer Olympic and
Paralympic Games and pledges cooperation and support toward the
successful fulfillment of those Games in the highest sense of
the Olympic tradition; and
(3) respectfully requests that the Secretary of the Senate
transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution to the United
States Olympic Committee and to the International Olympic
Committee.

Agreed to July 14, 2016.