Bill > HR405

This bill permits the District of Columbia and each U.S. territory to furnish up to two statues honoring deceased residents for placement in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, in the same manner as statues honoring citizens of the States. It also defines the term "State" to include American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands, and the term "citizen" to include a national of the United States. The bill also includes a conforming amendment to the procedures for replacing statues in Statuary Hall to account for the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.