119-hr1718

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1718 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 1718

 To establish the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site in 
 the State of Maryland and provide for its administration as an 
 affiliated area of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 February 27, 2025

Mr. Mfume (for himself, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Harris of Maryland, Mr. Raskin, 
Mr. Ivey, Mr. Olszewski, Ms. Elfreth, Mrs. McClain Delaney, Ms. Norton, 
 Mr. Meeks, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Carson, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Goldman 
 of New York, Mrs. McIver, and Mr. Fields) introduced the following 
 bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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 A BILL

 To establish the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site in 
 the State of Maryland and provide for its administration as an 
 affiliated area of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Justice Thurgood Marshall National 
Historic Site Establishment Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

    (a) 

=== Findings ===
-Congress finds the following:

    (1) Thurgood Marshall led the National Association for the 
 Advancement of Colored People

    (NAACP) Legal Defense and 
 Educational Fund from 1940 to 1961, and successfully argued 29 
 of 32 civil rights cases before the United States Supreme 
 Court, including the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education 
 case that ended racial segregation of public schools.

    (2) Thurgood Marshall was appointed by President John F. 
 Kennedy to serve as a Judge on the United States Court of 
 Appeals for the 2nd Circuit from 1961 to 1965. He was then 
 appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to serve as United 
 States Solicitor General from 1965 to 1967.

    (3) Nominated by President Lyndon Johnson and confirmed by 
 the United States Senate, Thurgood Marshall became the first 
 African American to serve on the United States Supreme Court 
 and served as an Associate Justice from 1967 to 1991.

    (4) As a result of his long legal career, Thurgood Marshall 
 is credited with ending legal segregation in America.

    (5) Public School 103, now better known as the Justice 
 Thurgood Marshall School, located at 1315 Division Street in 
 Baltimore, Maryland, was the site of Thurgood Marshall's 
 elementary education.

    (6) The Justice Thurgood Marshall School is owned and 
 operated as a museum by the Beloved Community Services 
 Corporation, which has completed a historic restoration for 
 adaptive re-use of the School.

    (7) Congress authorized the National Park Service to 
 prepare a special resource study of Public School 103 in 2019, 
 which the National Park Service transmitted to Congress in 
 2023. The National Park Service found that Public School 103 
 met its criteria for national significance and suitability for 
 addition to the National Park System.

    (b) 

=== Purpose ===
-The purpose of this Act is to preserve, protect, and 
interpret for the benefit of future generations the significant 
historic contributions of Justice Thurgood Marshall by establishing the 
elementary school he attended as a national historic site and providing 
for the site's administration as an affiliated area of the National 
Park System.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

 In this Act:

    (1) National historic site.--The term ``National Historic 
 Site'' means the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic 
 Site established by 

section 4 of this Act.

    (2) School.--The term ``School'' means the building located 
 at 1315 Division Street in Baltimore, Maryland, known as Public 
 School 103, which is owned and managed by the Beloved Community 
 Services Corporation, a nonprofit organization established in 
 Baltimore, Maryland.

    (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
 of the Interior.

SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL NATIONAL 
 HISTORIC SITE.

    (a) In General.--There is established as an affiliated area of the 
National Park System the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic 
Site.

    (b) Description.--The National Historic Site shall consist of the 
School, as generally depicted on the map entitled ``Justice Thurgood 
Marshall School National Historic Site Proposed Boundary'', numbered 
962/194939, and dated September 2024.
            (c) Ownership.--The School shall continue to be owned, operated, 
and managed by the Beloved Community Services Corporation.
            (d) Administration.--The National Historic Site shall be managed in 
a manner consistent with--

    (1) this Act; and

    (2) laws generally applicable to units of the National Park 
 System.

    (e) Management Entity.--The Beloved Community Services Corporation 
shall be the management entity for the National Historic Site.

    (f) Agreements.--The Secretary--

    (1) may provide technical assistance and enter into 
 cooperative agreements with the management entity for the 
 purpose of providing financial assistance for the marketing, 
 marking, interpretation, and preservation of the National 
 Historic Site; and

    (2) shall enter into an agreement with the management 
 entity that delineates the roles and responsibilities for the 
 management of the area consistent with the policies and 
 standards that apply to units of the National Park System.

    (g) Limited Role of the Secretary.--Nothing in this Act authorizes 
the Secretary to acquire the property at 1315 Division Street or to 
assume overall financial responsibility for the operation, maintenance, 
or management of the National Historic Site.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

 There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary 
to carry out this Act.
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