US Congress House Bill 3556 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 38-1)
Status: Introduced on September 18 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-03-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

National Park Service Centennial Act This bill establishes the National Park Centennial Challenge Fund in the Treasury to finance signature projects and programs to enhance the National Park System (NPS) as it approaches its centennial in 2016. There is also established in the Treasury a Public Lands Centennial Fund. The Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture shall jointly establish a program under which funds from the Centennial Fund are made available to federal land or water management agencies to support projects that: enhance visitor services and outdoor recreational opportunities, restore lands and waters, repair facilities or trails, or increase energy and water efficiency. National Park Foundation Endowment Act The National Park Foundation shall establish the Second Century Endowment for the National Park Service. The National Park Service Second Century Fund is established in the Treasury. Interior shall undertake a broad program of the highest quality interpretation and education. The Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 is amended to increase from 25 to 30 the age limit for participants in the Public Lands Corps. This bill makes permanent the Volunteers in the Parks Program. Interior may establish a Visitor Services Management Authority (VSMA) to administer commercial visitor services programs and activities of the NPS, including the award and administration of commercial visitor facilities and services management contracts pursuant to this Act. A VSMA revolving fund is established for expenses necessary for the management, improvement, enhancement, operation, construction, and maintenance of commercial visitor services and facilities and payment of possessory interest and leasehold surrender interest.

National Park Service Centennial Act

Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Niki Tsongas [D-MA]	Rep. Debbie Dingell [D-MI]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]
Rep. Jared Huffman [D-CA]	Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ]	Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]	Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]	Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]
Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]	Rep. Pedro Pierluisi [N-PR]	Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]
Rep. Michael Capuano [D-MA]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Betty McCollum [D-MN]	Rep. Mark Takai [D-HI]
Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick [D-AZ]
Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. Adam Schiff [D-CA]
Rep. Beto O'Rourke [D-TX]	Rep. Steve Israel [D-NY]	Rep. Jackie Speier [D-CA]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]
Rep. Patrick Murphy [D-FL]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Julia Brownley [D-CA]
Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA]	Rep. Susan Davis [D-CA]	Rep. Doris Matsui [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-23	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
2015-10-06	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
2015-10-05	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
2015-09-18	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2015-09-18	House	Referred to House Agriculture
2015-09-18	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2015-09-18	House	Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2015-09-18	House	Introduced in House

SB2257 (Related) 2015-12-08 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
HB4680 (Related) 2016-12-16 - Became Public Law No: 114-289.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3556/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr3556/BILLS-114hr3556ih.pdf