[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4510 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]
H.R.4510
One Hundred Ninth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the third day of January, two thousand and six
An Act
To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to accept the donation of a
bust depicting Sojourner Truth and to display the bust in a suitable
location in the Capitol.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
Congress finds as follows:
(1) Sojourner Truth was a towering figure among the founders of
the movement for women's suffrage in the United States, and no
monument that does not include her can accurately represent this
important development in our Nation's history.
(2) The statue known as the Portrait Monument, originally
presented to Congress in 1920 in honor of the passage of the
Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote and
presently exhibited in the rotunda of the Capitol, portrays several
early suffragists who were Sojourner Truth's contemporaries but not
Sojourner Truth herself, the only African American among the group.
SEC. 2. ACCEPTANCE AND DISPLAY OF BUST OF SOJOURNER TRUTH IN CAPITOL.
(a) Acceptance of Donation of Bust.--Not later than 2 years after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Joint Committee on the
Library shall accept the donation of a bust depicting Sojourner Truth,
subject to such terms and conditions as the Joint Committee considers
appropriate.
(b) Display.--The Joint Committee shall place the bust accepted
under subsection (a) in a suitable permanent location in the Capitol.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.