This bill would abolish the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument in California. The monument was established by Presidential Proclamation 8884 on October 8, 2012. After abolishment, any unobligated amounts previously appropriated or otherwise made available for the monument may not be used by the Secretary of the Interior to support operation or maintenance except to carry out necessary actions to implement the abolishment. Those unobligated amounts are to be transferred and made available to carry out section 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (34 U.S.C. 40701).
The bill ends the federal designation of the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument and prevents the Secretary of the Interior from using any unobligated funds that had been set aside for the monument for its operation or maintenance. The same unobligated funds would be transferred to support DNA backlog elimination under the cited 2000 law.
The bill directs that unobligated amounts previously appropriated or otherwise made available for the monument be transferred to carry out section 2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000. The text does not list dollar amounts or new appropriations. No publicly available information.
The bill text does not include proponents' statements. Sponsors listed in the bill metadata are Senators John Cornyn and Bill Cassidy.
The bill text does not include opponents' statements. No publicly available information.