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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1774
To amend title 23, United States Code, to withhold certain apportionment
funds from the District of Columbia unless the Mayor of the District
of Columbia removes the phrase Black Lives Matter from the street
symbolically designated as Black Lives Matter Plaza, redesignates such
street as Liberty Plaza, and removes such phrase from each website,
document, and other material under the jurisdiction of the District of
Columbia.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH3, 2025
Mr. C
LYDEintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Transportation and Infrastructure
A BILL
To amend title 23, United States Code, to withhold certain
apportionment funds from the District of Columbia un-
less the Mayor of the District of Columbia removes the
phrase Black Lives Matter from the street symbolically
designated as Black Lives Matter Plaza, redesignates
such street as Liberty Plaza, and removes such phrase
from each website, document, and other material under
the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. REDESIGNATION OF BLACK LIVES MATTER 1
PLAZA AND REMOVAL OF BLACK LIVES MAT-2
TER PHRASE FROM EACH WEBSITE, DOCU-3
MENT, AND OTHER MATERIAL UNDER THE 4
JURISDICTION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM-5
BIA. 6
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Chapter 1 of title 23, United 7
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-8
lowing: 9
‘‘§ 180. Redesignation of Black Lives Matter Plaza 10
and removal of Black Lives Matter 11
phrase from each website, document, and 12
other material under the jurisdiction of 13
the District of Columbia 14
‘‘(a) W
ITHHOLDING OF FUNDS FORNONCOMPLI-15
ANCE.—The Secretary shall withhold 50 percent of the 16
amount required to be apportioned to the District of Co-17
lumbia under section 104(b) on the first day of each fiscal 18
year beginning after the date of enactment of this section 19
in which the Mayor of the District of Columbia has not 20
complied with the requirements of subsection (b). 21
‘‘(b) I
NGENERAL.—To be in compliance with this 22
section, the Mayor of the District of Columbia, not later 23
than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this sec-24
tion, shall— 25
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‘‘(1) remove the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ 1
from— 2
‘‘(A) 16th Street, N.W., between H Street, 3
N.W., and K Street, N.W., in the District of 4
Columbia (symbolically designated as ‘Black 5
Lives Matter Plaza’ under the Black Lives Mat-6
ter Plaza Designation Act of 2020 (sec. 9– 7
204.01 note, D.C. Official Code); and 8
‘‘(B) each website, document, and other 9
material under the jurisdiction of the District of 10
Columbia; and 11
‘‘(2) redesignate such street as ‘Liberty 12
Plaza’.’’. 13
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The analysis for chap-14
ter 1 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by add-15
ing at the end the following: 16
‘‘180. Redesignation of Black Lives Matter Plaza and removal of Black Lives
Matter phrase from each website, document, and other mate-
rial under the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia.’’.
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