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[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 588 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                  Union Calendar No. 16
113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 588

                          [Report No. 113-28]

 To provide for donor contribution acknowledgments to be displayed at 
 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 6, 2013

   Mr. Young of Alaska (for himself, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Hanabusa, Mr. 
 Cleaver, Mr. Hanna, Mr. Guthrie, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, 
Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Shea-Porter, Mr. Pearce, Ms. 
Ros-Lehtinen, and Mrs. Capps) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

                             April 9, 2013

Additional sponsors: Mr. Duncan of Tennessee, Mr. Michaud, Mr. Sablan, 
Mr. Coffman, Ms. Gabbard, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Barber, Mr. 
    Cramer, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Lipinski, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Miller of 
  Florida, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Amodei, Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
    Calvert, Mr. Pierluisi, Mr. Walz, Mr. Matheson, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. 
                Stewart, Mr. Cardenas, and Mr. Horsford

                             April 9, 2013

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
                       and ordered to be printed

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
 To provide for donor contribution acknowledgments to be displayed at 
 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center, 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 ``Vietnam Veterans Donor 
Acknowledgment Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. DONOR CONTRIBUTION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AT THE VIETNAM VETERANS 
              MEMORIAL VISITOR CENTER.

    Section 6(b) of Public Law 96-297 (16 U.S.C. 431 note) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (4) by striking the ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) in paragraph (5) by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (3) by inserting at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(6) notwithstanding section 8905(b)(7) of title 40, 
        United States Code--
                    ``(A) the Secretary of the Interior shall allow the 
                Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. to acknowledge 
                donor contributions to the visitor center by 
                displaying, inside the visitor center, an appropriate 
                statement or credit acknowledging the contribution;
                    ``(B) donor contribution acknowledgments shall be 
                displayed in a form approved by the Secretary of the 
                Interior and for a period of time commensurate with the 
                level of the contribution and the life of the facility;
                    ``(C) the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund shall bear 
                all expenses related to the display of donor 
                acknowledgments;
                    ``(D) prior to the display of donor 
                acknowledgments, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, 
                Inc. shall submit to the Secretary for approval, its 
                plan for displaying donor acknowledgments;
                    ``(E) such plan shall include the sample text and 
                types of the acknowledgments or credits to be displayed 
                and the form and location of all displays;
                    ``(F) the Secretary shall approve the plan, if the 
                Secretary determines that the plan--
                            ``(i) allows only short, discrete, and 
                        unobtrusive acknowledgments or credits;
                            ``(ii) does not permit any advertising 
                        slogans or company logos; and
                            ``(iii) conforms to applicable National 
                        Park Service guidelines for indoor donor 
                        recognition; and
                    ``(G) if the Secretary of the Interior determines 
                that the proposed plan submitted under this paragraph, 
                does not meet the requirements of this paragraph, the 
                Secretary shall--
                            ``(i) advise the Vietnam Veterans Memorial 
                        Fund, Inc. not later than 30 days after receipt 
                        of the proposed plan of the reasons that such 
                        plan does not meet the requirements; and
                            ``(ii) allow the Vietnam Veterans Memorial 
                        Fund, Inc. to submit a revised donor 
                        recognition plan.''.
                                                  Union Calendar No. 16

113th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 588

                          [Report No. 113-28]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To provide for donor contribution acknowledgments to be displayed at 
 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             April 9, 2013

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
                       and ordered to be printed
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