Reconciliation in Place Names Act

This bill would require the Secretary of the Interior to create a 17-member Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names within 180 days. The committee would collect and review public proposals to rename geographic features and federal land units with names it defines as offensive, such as names with racial or sexual slurs or names honoring people who committed atrocities against Native Americans. It would send renaming proposals to the Board on Geographic Names and, for federal land units, to Congress. The Board would have 3 years to accept or reject each proposal and would have to approve it unless there is a compelling reason and substantial public interest in rejecting it, or approval would violate federal law.

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Sponsors

• Elizabeth Warren Democrat sponsor
• 10 cosponsors