Adams Memorial-Great American Heroes Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Adams Memorial-Great American Heroes Act gives the Adams Memorial Commission more time and more specific location authority. It amends section 2406(l) of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to replace the 2025 deadline with 2032, with the extension taking effect as if enacted on December 1, 2025. It updates Public Law 107-62 to say the Adams Memorial may proceed notwithstanding section 8908(c) of title 40 and extends that authority to 2032. It rewrites Public Law 107-315 so the Adams Memorial must be located within the area generally shown as Adams Memorial: Eligible Additional Area on the Adams Memorial Commission's February 25, 2025 map, unless the Commission determines that location is not suitable or feasible because of physical or security constraints, in which case it must be located within the Reserve. It defines Adams Memorial, Commission, and Reserve and repeals superseded conforming sections.
Who Benefits and How
The Adams Memorial Commission, Adams family legacy organizations, memorial supporters, National Mall visitors, civic-history groups, design and planning consultants for the memorial, and donors supporting the Adams Memorial benefit from a 2032 deadline, a mapped eligible additional area, and a Reserve fallback if the mapped site cannot work for physical or security reasons.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The National Park Service, National Mall planners, federal preservation staff, commemorative-works administrators, security reviewers, competing memorial sponsors, public-space reviewers, and congressional oversight staff must handle another exception to ordinary commemorative-work siting restrictions, evaluate the mapped area, assess physical and security feasibility, manage Reserve fallback implications, and implement conforming repeals.
Key Provisions
- Extends Adams Memorial authority from 2025 to 2032.
- Applies the extension as if enacted on December 1, 2025.
- Authorizes the Adams Memorial in the mapped eligible additional area notwithstanding title 40 location restrictions.
- Provides a Reserve fallback if the Commission finds the mapped location unsuitable or infeasible for physical or security reasons.
- Defines Adams Memorial, Commission, and Reserve for the new location authority.
- Repeals superseded sections 2 and 3 of Public Law 107-315.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Extends Adams Memorial authority to 2032, makes the extension effective as if enacted December 1, 2025, authorizes the memorial in a February 25, 2025 eligible additional area notwithstanding title 40 restrictions, provides a Reserve fallback if that location is infeasible, and repeals superseded Public Law 107-315 sections.
Key Policy Areas
Commemoration, Public Lands, Federal Administration
Primary Purpose
Extends Adams Memorial authority to 2032, makes the extension effective as if enacted December 1, 2025, authorizes the memorial in a February 25, 2025 eligible additional area notwithstanding title 40 restrictions, provides a Reserve fallback if that location is infeasible, and repeals superseded Public Law 107-315 sections.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Adams Memorial Commission
- Adams family legacy organizations
- Memorial supporters
- National Mall visitors
- Civic-history groups
- Design consultants for the memorial
- Planning consultants for the memorial
- Donors supporting the Adams Memorial
Identified Costs
- National Park Service
- National Mall planners
- Federal preservation staff
- Commemorative-works administrators
- Security reviewers
- Competing memorial sponsors
- Public-space reviewers
- Congressional oversight staff
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
Passed HouseReceived in the Senate.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, …
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate …
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without …
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, …
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules …
Passed House (inferred from eh version)
Additional sponsors: Mr. Auchincloss, Mr. Keating, and Mr. Amodei of …
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 305.
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Commemorative-works administrators, Federal preservation staff, National Mall planners
Positive-direction: Commemorative-works administrators
Negative-direction: Federal preservation staff, National Mall planners, National Park Service, Security reviewers
Adams Memorial Commission, Adams family legacy organizations
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "memorial"
- → Adams Memorial
- "commission"
- → Adams Memorial Commission
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