119-hr4608

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4608 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4608

 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to remove or permanently 
 conceal the name of Francis Newlands on the grounds of the memorial 
fountain located at Chevy Chase Circle in the District of Columbia, and 
 for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 July 22, 2025

 Ms. Norton (for herself, Mr. Raskin, and Mr. Carson) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
 Resources

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 A BILL

 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to remove or permanently 
 conceal the name of Francis Newlands on the grounds of the memorial 
fountain located at Chevy Chase Circle in the District of Columbia, 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 ``Francis G. Newlands Memorial Removal 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF PLAQUE AND CONCRETE FROM MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN GROUNDS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior shall--

    (1) remove the brass plaque bearing the name ``Senator 
 Francis G. Newlands'' from the grounds of the memorial 
 fountain;

    (2) remove from the south end of the memorial fountain's 
 face, the stone, tablet-like projection bearing the name of 
 ``Francis Griffith Newlands'' and a related inscription;

    (3) remove or permanently conceal the name ``Newlands'' 
 carved into the upper face of the memorial fountain's coping 
 stones; and

    (4) offer the items removed pursuant to paragraphs

    (1) ,

    (2) , and

    (3) to the descendants of Francis Griffith Newlands 
 for a period of 60 days, and if not claimed within that period, 
 direct the items removed pursuant to paragraphs

    (1) ,

    (2) , and

    (3) to be maintained by the National Park Service as Federal 
 property and accessioned into the Rock Creek Park museum 
 collection.

    (b) Memorial Fountain.--For the purposes of this section, the term 
``memorial fountain'' means the memorial fountain located at Chevy 
Chase Circle, Connecticut Avenue and Western Avenue NW, in the District 
of Columbia.
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