PoliticalRepoPoliticalRepo

United States · Bill · HR

H.R. 548 (111th)

Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2009

referredUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

15 January 2009

Last action

Status

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Sponsors

Subjects

Discovery layer

Source updated

24 March 2026

Summary

Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the American Battlefield Protection Program, to assist and work in partnership with citizens, federal, state, local, and tribal governments, other public entities, educational institutions, and private nonprofits in the identification, research, evaluation, interpretation, and protection of historic battlefields and associated sites. Establishes a battlefield acquisition grant program under which the Secretary may provide grants to eligible entities to pay the federal share of the cost to acquire interests in eligible sites for the preservation and protection of those sites.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

8 official files

Referred in Senate (text)

View fileDownload file

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.