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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-425
REPUBLIC OF TEXAS LEGATION MEMORIAL ACT
MAY 27, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 3349]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3349) to authorize the Daughters of the Republic of Texas
to establish the Republic of Texas Legation Memorial as a com-
memorative work in the District of Columbia, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with
an amendment and recommends 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 Republic of Texas Legation Memorial Act.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION TO ESTABLISH COMMEMORATIVE WORK.
(a) IN GENERAL.-The Daughters of the Republic of Texas may establish a com-
memorative work on Federal land in the District of Columbia and its environs to
commemorate and honor those who, as representatives of the Republic of Texas,
served in the District of Columbia as diplomats to the United States and made pos-
sible the annexation of Texas as the twenty-eighth State of the United States.
(b) COMPLIANCE WITH STANDARDS FOR COMMEMORATIVE WORKS.-The establish-
ment of the commemorative work under this section shall be in accordance with
chapter 89 of title 40, United States Code (commonly known as the Commemora-
tive Works Act).
(c) PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS.-
(1) IN GENERAL.-Federal funds may not be used to pay any expense of the
establishment of the commemorative work under this section.
(2) RESPONSIBILITY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS.-The
Daughters of the Republic of Texas shall be solely responsible for acceptance of
contributions for, and payment of the expenses of, the establishment of the com-
memorative work under this section.
(d) DEPOSIT OF EXCESS FUNDS.-
(1) IN GENERAL.-If upon payment of all expenses for the establishment of the
memorial (including the maintenance and preservation amount required by sec-
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