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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-533
NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO FALLEN EDUCATORS ACT
JANUARY 29, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2711]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2711) to designate a National Memorial to Fallen Edu-
cators at the National Teachers Hall of Fame in Emporia, Kansas,
having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an
amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the National Memorial to Fallen Educators Act.
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION.
(a) IN GENERAL.-The memorial to fallen educators located at the National Teach-
ers Hall of Fame in Emporia, Kansas, is designated as the National Memorial to
Fallen Educators.
(b) EFFECT OF DESIGNATION.-The national memorial designated by this section
is not a unit of the National Park System and the designation of the National Me-
morial to Fallen Educators shall not require or permit Federal funds to be expended
for any purpose related to that national memorial.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 2711 is to designate a National Memorial to
Fallen Educators at the National Teachers Hall of Fame in Empo-
ria, Kansas.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
From 1764 to the present, 119 educators in the United States
have lost their lives while performing their professional duties. The
United States currently lacks a national memorial dedicated to fall-
en educators. A memorial at the National Teachers Hall of Fame
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