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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2549 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To authorize the Pines Foundation to establish the Fire Island AIDS |
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| 6 | 6 | | Memorial, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | APRIL1, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. G |
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| 10 | 10 | | ARBARINOintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 11 | 11 | | Committee on Natural Resources |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To authorize the Pines Foundation to establish the Fire |
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| 14 | 14 | | Island AIDS Memorial, and for other purposes. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fire Island AIDS Me-4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | morial Act’’. 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SEC. 2. PURPOSES. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | The purposes of the Act are— 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (1) to honor and remember the many residents 8 |
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| 23 | 23 | | of Fire Island Pines and Cherry Grove, New York, 9 |
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| 24 | 24 | | who suffered and died from the AIDS epidemic; and 10 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (2) to educate future generations about the 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | AIDS epidemic and the impact of the AIDS epi-2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | demic on the Fire Island communities in the State 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | of New York. 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | In this Act: 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (1) D |
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| 35 | 35 | | IRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | the Director of the National Park Service. 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (2) F |
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| 38 | 38 | | OUNDATION.—The term ‘‘Foundation’’ 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | means the Pines Foundation. 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (3) M |
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| 41 | 41 | | EMORIAL.—The term ‘‘Memorial’’ means 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | the Fire Island AIDS Memorial authorized to be es-12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | tablished under section 4(a). 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | SEC. 4. FIRE ISLAND AIDS MEMORIAL. 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (a) A |
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| 46 | 46 | | UTHORIZATIONTOESTABLISHMEMORIAL.— 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | The Foundation may establish and maintain a memorial 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | at Fire Island National Seashore to honor the residents 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | of Fire Island who died of AIDS, to be known as the ‘‘Fire 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | Island AIDS Memorial’’. 19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (b) U |
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| 52 | 52 | | SE OFFEDERALFUNDSPROHIBITED.— 20 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (1) I |
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| 54 | 54 | | N GENERAL.—Federal funds may not be 21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | used to design, procure, prepare, install, or maintain 22 |
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| 56 | 56 | | the Memorial. 23 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (2) N |
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| 58 | 58 | | ON-FEDERAL FUNDS.—The Director may 24 |
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| 59 | 59 | | accept and expend contributions of non-Federal 25 |
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| 63 | 63 | | funds and resources for the purposes described in 1 |
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| 64 | 64 | | paragraph (1). 2 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (c) L |
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| 66 | 66 | | OCATION OFMEMORIAL.—The Director may 3 |
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| 67 | 67 | | allow the Memorial to be established in the area of the 4 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Fire Island National Seashore located along the walkway 5 |
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| 69 | 69 | | between the Fire Island Pines and Cherry Grove and adja-6 |
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| 70 | 70 | | cent to the Carrington House. 7 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (d) D |
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| 72 | 72 | | ESIGN OFMEMORIAL.—The final design of the 8 |
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| 73 | 73 | | Memorial shall be subject to the approval of the Director. 9 |
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