8221 -- Blackwell School National Historic Site Act | Poliscope

Blackwell School National Historic Site Act

8221

116th Congress

Public Lands and Natural Resources

In Committee

Legislative Progress

✓

Introduced

Committee

Floor Vote

Other Chamber

Enacted

Introduced

September 11, 2020

Latest Action

September 16, 2020

Primary Sponsor

Will HurdRepublican(TX)

Momentum (last 30 days)

score

0 actions · 0 new cosponsors · 0 votes

Speed vs cohort

65pct

5d open

vs 9,062 other HR bills in the 116th — cohort avg 39d

Summary

Blackwell School National Historic Site Act This bill establishes the Blackwell School National Historic Site in Texas as a unit of the National Park System to preserve, protect, and interpret for the benefit of present and future generations the Blackwell School, its role as both an academic and cultural cornerstone in the community in Marfa, Texas, and its function within a segregated system of education in Texas and the United States from 1885-1965. The historic site shall not be established until the date on which the Department of the Interior has (1) entered into a written agreement with the Marfa Unified School District providing that the Blackwell School shall be donated to or placed by agreement into comanagement with the United States for inclusion in a national historic site to be managed consistently with the purposes of such a site, and (2) acquired sufficient land or interests in land within the boundaries of the historic site to constitute a manageable unit. Interior may only acquire by donation, purchase with donated funds, or exchange any land or interest in land located within the boundary of the historic site. The bill prohibits any private property or nonfederal public property from being included within the boundaries of the historic site or managed as part of such site without the written consent of the owner. Interior shall prepare a general management plan for the historic site.

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Cited source text, amounts, lobbyists, and targets

H.R.970 - Robert E. Lee Statue Removal Act H.R.1049 - National Heritage Area Act of 2019 H.R.1267 - B-47 Ridge Designation Act H.R.3250 - Julius Rosenwald and the Rosenwald Schools Act of 2019 H.R.3651 - To facilitate the use of certain land in Nebraska for public outdoor recreational opportunities, and for other purposes H.R.4135 - To direct the Secretary of the Interior to remove the statue to the memory and in honor of Albert Pike erected near Judiciary Square in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes H.R.4139 - To provide for the boundary of the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park to be adjusted, to authorize the donation of land to the United States for addition to that historic park, and for other purposes H.R.4345 - Fort Monroe National Monument Land Acquisition Act H.R.4840 - Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Boundary Modification Act of 2019 H.R.5458 - Rocky Mountain National Park Boundary Modification Act H.R.5472 - Jimmy Carter National Historical Park Redesignation Act H.R.5853 - Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area Act H.R.5989 - Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area Act H.R.7550 - Confederate Commemorative Works Inventory and Joint Resource Study Act H.R.8093 - Big Bend National Park Boundary Adjustment Act H.R.8221 - Blackwell School National Historic Site Act H.R.5990 - Bronzeville-Black Metropolis National Heritage Area Act S.1863 - Julius Rosenwald and Rosenwald Schools Study Act of 2019 S.3217 - National Heritage Area Act S.3427 - Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act S.3241 - A bill to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to establish the Cerro de la Olla Wilderness in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico S.3363 - Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area Act No Leg Yet African American Monuments at GETT Chesapeake Bay NRA