This bill directs Congress's Joint Committee on the Library to commission and install a statue of Shirley Chisholm, the groundbreaking African American congresswoman, in the U.S. Capitol building. The committee has up to two years from the bill's enactment to secure the statue through an agreement with an artist or sculptor, and it must be placed in a permanent public location within the Capitol. The bill authorizes whatever funding is necessary to complete the project, with those appropriated funds remaining available until fully spent. The Joint Committee can delegate the contracting work to the Architect of the Capitol if needed. This legislation honors Chisholm's historic legacy as the first Black woman elected to Congress and seeks to ensure her prominence in the nation's most important legislative building.
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