To permit the District of Columbia and each of the territories of the United States to provide and furnish statues honoring their citizens for placement in Statuary Hall in the same manner as statues honoring citizens of the States are provided for placement in Statuary Hall.

I 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 405 To permit the District of Columbia and each of the territories of the United States to provide and furnish statues honoring their citizens for place- ment in Statuary Hall in the same manner as statues honoring citizens of the States are provided for placement in Statuary Hall. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 9, 2019 Ms. PLASKETT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration A BILL To permit the District of Columbia and each of the terri- tories of the United States to provide and furnish statues honoring their citizens for placement in Statuary Hall in the same manner as statues honoring citizens of the States are provided for placement in Statuary Hall. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. PLACEMENT OF STATUES OF CITIZENS OF DIS- 3 TRICT OF COLUMBIA AND TERRITORIES IN 4 STATUARY HALL. 5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1814 of the Revised Stat- 6 utes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 2131) is amended by 7 VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:19 Jan 20, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H405.IH H405 pbinns on DSK79D2C42PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 405 IH adding at the end the following new sentence: ‘‘For pur- 1 poses of this section, the term ‘State’ includes American 2 Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Common- 3 wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Common- 4 wealth of Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Is- 5 lands, and the term ‘citizen’ includes a national of the 6 United States, as defined in section 101(a)(22) of the Im- 7 migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22)).’’. 8 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT RELATING TO PRO- 9 CEDURES FOR REPLACEMENT OF STATUES.—Section 311 10 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2001 (2 11 U.S.C. 2132) is amended by adding at the end the fol- 12 lowing new subsection: 13 ‘‘(f) For purposes of this section— 14 ‘‘(1) the term ‘State’ includes American Samoa, 15 the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth 16 of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Common- 17 wealth of Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin 18 Islands; and 19 ‘‘(2) in the case of the District of Columbia, the 20 Council of the District of Columbia shall be treated 21 as the legislature and the Mayor of the District of 22 Columbia shall be treated as the Governor.’’. 23 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:19 Jan 20, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H405.IH H405 pbinns on DSK79D2C42PROD with BILLS