African American Burial Grounds Study Act
United States116th CongressS-2827Senate
Updated: Dec 21, 2020
Summary
African American Burial Grounds Study Act This bill directs the National Park Service (NPS) to conduct a study of ways to identify, interpret, preserve, and record unmarked, previously abandoned, underserved, or other burial grounds relating to the historic African American experience. In conducting the study, the NPS shall consider ways to engage with descendant, local, and other communities historically associated with identified burial grounds by geography, genealogy, or culture; appropriate processes to identify locations of unmarked and unrecorded African American burial grounds with appropriate consideration for the privacy and safety of the burial grounds; alternatives for providing in a public database the locations of, and information on, recorded and unrecorded African American burial grounds; alternatives for commemorating and interpreting African American burial grounds; and best practices for preserving burial ground landscapes and caring for artifacts.
Bill texts
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Timeline
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S7859)
Senate
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Senate
Received in the House.
House of Representatives
Held at the desk.
House of Representatives