Energy and Natural Resources Committee, National Parks Subcommittee
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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.
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Timeline
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-367.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote.(text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7859)
Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote. (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7859)
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S7859)
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Received in the House.
Held at the desk.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-367.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote.(text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7859)
Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote. (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7859)
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S7859)
Cemeteries and funeralsDepartment of the InteriorExecutive agency funding and structureGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsHistoric sites and heritage areasMonuments and memorialsMuseums, exhibitions, cultural centersPublic-private cooperationRacial and ethnic relationsResearch administration and fundingU.S. history
African American Burial Grounds Study Act
USA116th CongressS-2827| Senate
| Updated: 12/21/2020
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.
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Timeline
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-367.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote.(text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7859)
Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote. (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7859)
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S7859)
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Received in the House.
Held at the desk.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-367.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote.(text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7859)
Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote. (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7859)
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S7859)
Cemeteries and funeralsDepartment of the InteriorExecutive agency funding and structureGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigationsHistoric sites and heritage areasMonuments and memorialsMuseums, exhibitions, cultural centersPublic-private cooperationRacial and ethnic relationsResearch administration and fundingU.S. history