Official Summaries

This bill requires the Joint Committee on the Library to contract for and place a statue of Benjamin Franklin in the Capitol.

The committee shall place the statue in a permanent public location where it is accessible during a guided tour provided by the Capitol Visitor Center.

The contract must be executed by December 31, 2025, and the statue must be placed by December 31, 2026. 

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 250 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 250


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 27, 2025

    Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and 
                             Administration

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To direct the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a statue of 
            Benjamin Franklin for placement in the Capitol.

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

SECTION 1. PROCUREMENT AND PLACEMENT OF STATUE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN 
              THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL.

    (a) Obtaining of Statue.--Not later than December 31, 2025, the 
Joint Committee on the Library shall enter into an agreement to obtain 
a statue of Benjamin Franklin, under such terms and conditions as the 
Joint Committee considers appropriate consistent with applicable law.
    (b) Placement.--Not later than December 31, 2026, the Joint 
Committee shall place the statue obtained under subsection (a) in a 
suitable permanent location in the United States Capitol where the 
statue is accessible to the public during a guided tour of the Capitol 
provided by the Capitol Visitor Center.

            Passed the House of Representatives February 26, 2025.

            Attest:

                                             KEVIN F. MCCUMBER,

                                                                 Clerk.