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[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1627 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1627

  To direct the Architect of the Capitol to design and install in the 
United States Capitol an exhibit that depicts the attack on the Capitol 
       that occurred on January 6, 2021, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2021

   Mr. Crow (for himself, Ms. Wild, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Malinowski, Ms. 
     Jacobs of California, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Welch, Mrs. Torres of 
   California, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Correa, Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. Himes, Ms. 
Speier, Mr. Kildee, Ms. Kuster, and Ms. Blunt Rochester) introduced the 
     following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House 
                             Administration

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                                 A BILL

 
  To direct the Architect of the Capitol to design and install in the 
United States Capitol an exhibit that depicts the attack on the Capitol 
       that occurred on January 6, 2021, 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 ``Capitol Remembrance Act''.

SEC. 2. EXHIBIT DEPICTING THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Architect of the Capitol, in consultation with the 
Joint Committee on the Library, shall carry out a project to design and 
install in a prominent location in the United States Capitol a 
permanent exhibit that depicts the attack on the Capitol that occurred 
on January 6, 2021.
    (b) Exhibit Requirements.--
            (1) Inclusion of capitol property.--The Architect shall, to 
        the extent practicable, preserve property from the United 
        States Capitol or the United States Capitol Grounds (as 
        described in section 5102 of title 40, United States Code) that 
        was damaged during the attack and include such property in the 
        exhibit described in subsection (a) as the Architect determines 
        appropriate.
            (2) Photographic records.--The Architect shall include 
        existing photographic records relating to the attack on the 
        Capitol in the exhibit described in subsection (a).
            (3) Plaque.--The Architect shall include in the exhibit 
        described in subsection (a) a plaque for the purpose of 
        honoring--
                    (A) the United States Capitol Police and other law 
                enforcement agencies that participated in protecting 
                the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021;
                    (B) the sacrifice of heroes, including United 
                States Capitol Police Officers Brian Sicknick and 
                Howard Liebengood, Metropolitan Police Department 
                Officer Jeffrey Smith, and those who sustained injuries 
                as a result of protecting the United States Capitol on 
                January 6, 2021; and
                    (C) the Capitol staff that helped restore the 
                Capitol Complex after the attack.
            (4) Artwork.--The Architect may include artwork created to 
        depict the attack on the Capitol in the exhibit described in 
        subsection (a).
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act. Amounts 
appropriated pursuant to this subsection shall remain available until 
expended.
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