Mount Rushmore Protection Act

Bill: 118-hr-386
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2023-01-17
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Monuments and memorials

Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

South Dakota

U.S. history
Latest action: action_date: 2023-07-13
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-01-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Mount Rushmore Protection Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the use of any federal funds to alter, change, destroy, or remove any name, face, or other feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota and designates Mount Rushmore.</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 386 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 17, 2023 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota (for himself, Mr. Guest , Mr. Mooney , Mr. LaMalfa , Mr. Banks , Ms. Mace , Mr. Stewart , Mr. Nehls , Mrs. Radewagen , and Ms. Tenney ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To provide that no Federal funds shall be used to alter, change, destroy, or remove, in whole or in part, any name, face, or other feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Mount Rushmore Protection Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Mount Rushmore National Memorial is America’s Shrine of Democracy. (2) The Mount Rushmore National Memorial depicts the faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln, with the beauty of the Black Hills of South Dakota. 3. Prohibition on use of Federal funds No Federal funds shall be used to alter, change, destroy, or remove, in whole or in part, any name, face, or other feature on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. 4. Designation of Mount Rushmore (a) In general The mountain at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, located at N 43° 53.559′ W 103° 28.246′, shall be known and designated as Mount Rushmore . (b) References Any reference in any law, map, regulation, order, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the mountain and area described in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to Mount Rushmore .