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African American Burial Grounds Study Act

Introduced: November 7, 2019 See on congress.gov
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Dec 21, 2020
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Dec 21, 2020
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Dec 20, 2020
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)
Dec 20, 2020
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)
Dec 20, 2020
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S7859)
Dec 20, 2020
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Mar 4, 2020
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-367.
Nov 7, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Nov 7, 2019
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.
What's happening now December 21, 2020

Held at the desk.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 3