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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 608.
9/6/2016 • Senate
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(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on September 16, 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Medgar Evers House Study Act
(Sec. 3) Directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the home of the late civil rights activist Medgar Evers, which is located at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, Mississippi.
Requires Interior to: (1) evaluate the national significance of the site; (2) determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the site as a unit of the National Park System (NPS); (3) determine the effect of the site's designation on existing commercial and recreational uses, and the effect on state and local governments to manage those activities; and (4) identify any authorities, including condemnation, that will compel or permit the Department of the Interior to influence or participate in local land use decisions (such as zoning) or place restrictions on nonfederal land if the site is designated as an NPS unit.
Reported to Senate without amendment • 9/6/2016
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H.R. 959, Medgar Evers House Study Act
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 9, 2015
Published: July 29, 2015
H.R. 959, Medgar Evers House Study Act
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on July 13, 2016
Published: August 5, 2016
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Bill Journey
Originated in the House
Introduced
February 12, 2015
Committee Review
June 16, 2015
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Floor Debate
September 16, 2015
Passed Chamber
September 16, 2015
Other Chamber
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Enacted into Law