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110th Congress > House > Vote 44

Date: January 22, 2007

Result: 414-1 (Passed)

Clerk session vote number: 45

Vote Subject Matter: Government Management / Budget Special Interest

Sponsor: LANTOS, Thomas Peter (D-CA)

Bill number: HR390

Question: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

Description: Preservation of Records of Servitude, Emancipation, and Post Civil War Reconstruction Act

Bill summary: Preservation of Records of Servitude, Emancipation, and Post-Civil War Reconstruction Act - Requires the Archivist of the United States to: (1) establish, as part of the National Archives, and maintain an electronically searchable database of historic records of servitude, emancipation, and post-Civil War reconstruction (including Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Records, the Southern Claims Commission Records, Records of the Freedmen's Bank, Slave Impressments Records, Slave Payroll Records, and the Slave Manifest) contained within federal agencies for genealogical and historical research; and (2) preserve relevant records. Requires the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to provide grants to states, colleges and universities, and genealogical associations to preserve records and establish databases of local records of such information. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill titles: To require the establishment of a national database in the National Archives to preserve records of servitude, emancipation, and post-Civil War reconstruction and to provide grants to State and local entities to establish similar local databases.

Links for more info on the vote: congress.gov

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