Title: Confederate Monument Removal Act
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
Confederate Monument Removal Act
This bill amends the Revised Statutes of the United States to prohibit statues of certain persons who served voluntarily with the Confederate States of America from being displayed in National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol.
The Architect of the Capitol shall identify all such statues and, subject to the approval of the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, arrange for their removal from the Capitol within 120 days.
States may substitute statues in accordance with the requirements and procedures of the Revised Statutes and the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2001.
The bill makes appropriations for the activities in the bill.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3701 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3701

    To remove all statues of individuals who voluntarily served the 
Confederate States of America from display in the Capitol of the United 
                                States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 7, 2017

 Ms. Lee (for herself, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Meeks, 
   Mr. Pallone, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Rush, Mr. Welch, Ms. Eddie Bernice 
  Johnson of Texas, Mr. Butterfield, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. 
  Clay, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Ellison, Mr. 
Espaillat, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Khanna, Mr. McGovern, Mrs. 
Napolitano, Mr. Richmond, Mr. Clyburn, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. 
 Judy Chu of California, Ms. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Mr. 
  Grijalva, Mr. Pocan, Mr. McEachin, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. 
 Bass, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Brown of Maryland, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. 
 Cohen, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Correa, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Evans, Ms. Norton, 
  Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Smith of 
 Washington, and Ms. Wilson of Florida) introduced the following bill; 
      which was referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
    To remove all statues of individuals who voluntarily served the 
Confederate States of America from display in the Capitol of the United 
                                States.

    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 ``Confederate Monument Removal Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS AND REMOVAL PROCEDURES.

    (a) Requirements.--Section 1814 of the Revised Statutes (2 U.S.C. 
2131) is amended by inserting ``(other than persons who served 
voluntarily with the Confederate States of America)'' after ``military 
services''.
    (b) Statue Removal Procedures.--
            (1) In general.--The Architect of the Capitol shall--
                    (A) identify all statues on display in the Capitol 
                of the United States that do not meet the requirements 
                of section 1814 of the Revised Statutes (2 U.S.C. 
                2131), as amended by subsection (a); and
                    (B) subject to the approval of the Joint Committee 
                on the Library of Congress, arrange for the removal of 
                each such statue from the Capitol by not later than 120 
                days after the date of enactment of this Act.
            (2) Removal and return of statues.--
                    (A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (C), the 
                Architect of the Capitol shall arrange to transfer and 
                deliver any statue that is removed under this 
                subsection to the Smithsonian Institution.
                    (B) Storage or display of statues.--The Board of 
                Regents of the Smithsonian Institution shall follow the 
                policies and procedures of the Smithsonian Institution, 
                as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of 
                this Act, regarding the storage and display of any 
                statue transferred under subparagraph (A).
                    (C) State requests.--A statue provided for display 
                by a State that is removed under this subsection shall 
                be returned to the State, and the ownership of the 
                statue transferred to the State, if the State so 
                requests and agrees to pay any costs related to the 
                transportation of the statue to the State.
            (3) Replacement of statues.--A State that has a statue 
        removed under this subsection shall be able to replace such 
        statue in accordance with the requirements and procedures of 
        section 1814 of the Revised Statutes (2 U.S.C. 2131) and 
        section 311 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2001 
        (2 U.S.C. 2132).
            (4) Authorization and appropriations.--
                    (A) In general.--There are appropriated for the 
                fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, out of any money 
                in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $5,000,000 
                to carry out this section, including the costs related 
                to the removal, transfer, security, storage, and 
                display of the statues described in paragraph (1)(A), 
                of which--
                            (i) $2,000,000 shall be made available to 
                        the Architect of the Capitol; and
                            (ii) $3,000,000 shall be made available to 
                        the Smithsonian Institution.
                    (B) Availability.--Amounts appropriated under 
                subparagraph (A) shall remain available until expended.
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