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To permit the territories of the United States to provide and furnish statues for placement in the national statuary hall.

H.R. 5820 · 116th Congress · Feb 7, 2020 · Lineage

A BILL

Section 1 Placement of statues from territories in national statuary hall

(a)
Placement of statues— Section 1814 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 2131) is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: “For purposes of this section, the term State includes American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.”.
(b)
Conforming amendment relating to replacement of statues— Section 311 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2001 (2 U.S.C. 2132) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

“(f) For purposes of this section, the term “State” includes American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.”