Black Hills National Cemetery Boundary Expansion Act
Latest action · Sep 12, 2016 Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 624.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedOct 27, 2015
- Passed HouseSep 6, 2016
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Black Hills National Cemetery Boundary Expansion Act
(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to: (1) complete environmental, cultural resource, and other due diligence activities on certain public land to confirm its suitability for inclusion in the Black Hills National Cemetery, South Dakota; and (2) notify the Department of the Interior of such activities.
After completion of such activities and upon receipt by Interior of written confirmation of suitability from the VA, the land shall: (1) be withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws, including the mining laws, the mineral leasing laws, and the geothermal leasing laws, for as long as it remains under VA administrative jurisdiction; (2) be deemed property; and (3) be transferred to the VA for use as national cemeteries.(Sec. 3) Interior shall publish a notice containing the legal descriptions of such transferred land.
The VA shall reimburse Interior for reasonable transfer costs, including survey costs.
(Sec. 4) Upon a determination by the VA that all or a portion of such transferred land shall not be used for cemetery purposes, the VA shall: (1) notify Interior and transfer jurisdiction of the land back to Interior, and (2) be responsible for any decontamination costs necessary for restoration of the lands to the public lands.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Oct 27, 2015Markup Jun 15, 2016Reported Sep 6, 2016 |
| Federal Lands Subcommittee | Referred Oct 30, 2015Hearings May 12, 2016Discharged Jun 14, 2016 | |
| House | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Referred Oct 27, 2015Discharged Sep 6, 2016 |
| Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Nov 6, 2015 |
Actions 19
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 12, 2016Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 624.
- Sep 7, 2016Received in the Senate.
- Sep 6, 2016Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-714, Part I.
- Sep 6, 2016Committee on Veterans' Affairs discharged.
- Sep 6, 2016Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 553.
- Sep 6, 2016Mr. Bishop (UT) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Sep 6, 2016Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5073-5074)
- Sep 6, 2016DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3839.
- Sep 6, 2016Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5073)
- Sep 6, 2016Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Jun 15, 2016Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- Jun 15, 2016Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
- Jun 14, 2016Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
- Jun 14, 2016Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
- May 12, 2016Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Nov 6, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
- Oct 30, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Oct 27, 2015Introduced in House
- Oct 27, 2015Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H5073, H5074Text printed H5073 | Jared Polis D-CO, Kristi L. Noem R-SD, Rob Bishop R-UT | Sep 6, 2016 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimate
- Aug 31, 2016H.R. 3839, Black Hills National Cemetery Boundary Expansion ActAs ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on June 15, 2016
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 158, October 27, 2015, page H7254.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2223 | Black Hills National Cemetery Boundary Expansion Act | Related bill | Sep 6, 2016 |
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain Bureau of Land Management land from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for inclusion in the Black Hills National Cemetery, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Black Hills National Cemetery Boundary Expansion Act
- Short Titles as Reported to House
- Black Hills National Cemetery Boundary Expansion Act
- Short Titles as Passed House
- Black Hills National Cemetery Boundary Expansion Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
Text 5
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 12, 2016Placed on Calendar Senate
- Sep 7, 2016Received in Senate
- Sep 6, 2016Reported in House
- Sep 6, 2016Engrossed in House
- Oct 27, 2015Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
