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INFORMATION .
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-268
WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE NATIONAL MONUMENT
LOCATION ACT
NOVEMBER 3, 2023.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 1318]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1318) to authorize the location of a monument on the Na-
tional Mall to commemorate and honor the women's suffrage move-
ment and the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do
pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 1318 is to authorize the location of a monu-
ment on the National Mall to commemorate and honor the women's
suffrage movement and the passage of the 19th Amendment to the
Constitution, and for other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
For the first 144 years of America's history, women did not have
the right to vote. In the middle of the 19th Century, the women's
suffrage movement emerged with the goal of securing this impor-
tant constitutional right for women across the nation. In 1919,
Congress passed a constitutional amendment (the 19th Amend-
ment) granting women the right to vote, which was formally rati-
fied by the states on August 18, 1920.
Under the Commemorative Works Act (CWA), any new monu-
ment or memorial in the District of Columbia or the surrounding
area must be approved by an Act of Congress. Typically, once ap-
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