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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-271
JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT EDUCATION ACT
MARCH 15, 2022.-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
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 1931]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1931) to provide competitive grants for the promotion of
Japanese American confinement education as a means to under-
stand the importance of democratic principles, use and abuse of
power, and to raise awareness about the importance of cultural tol-
erance toward Japanese Americans, and for other purposes, 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 Japanese American Confinement Education Act.
SEC. 2. JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT EDUCATION.
Public Law 109-441 (120 Stat. 3290) is amended-
(1) in section 2, by adding at the end the following:
(4) JAPANESE AMERICAN ORGANIZATION.-The term 'Japanese American orga-
nization' means a 501c(3) organization within the United States established to
promote the understanding and appreciation of the ethnic and cultural diversity
of the United States by illustrating the Japanese American experience through-
out the history of the United States.
(5) JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT EDUCATION GRANTS.-The term 'Japa-
nese American Confinement Education Grants' means grants, through the Japa-
nese American Confinement Sites Program, for a Japanese American organiza-
tion to educate individuals, including through the use of digital resources, in the
United States on the historical importance of American confinement during
World War II so that present and future generations may learn from Japanese
American confinement and the commitment of the United States to equal jus-
tice under the law..
(2) in section 4-
(A) by inserting (a) IN GENERAL.- before There are authorized;
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