Truth in National Parks Act
Sponsored By: Representative Davids, Sharice [D-KS-3]
Introduced
Summary
This bill requires interpretive and educational materials in National Park Service units to be kept historically and culturally accurate and tightens rules on when those materials can be removed or changed. It also demands consultation with affected groups and orders a federal report on co-stewardship with Indigenous communities.
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- Visitors and families will see signs, plaques, flags, exhibits, and related online materials held to accuracy standards. Materials removed or altered between January 20, 2025 and enactment must be replaced or restored within 180 days.
- Park managers must follow new limits on removing, obscuring, editing, or altering interpretive or educational displays and may only update materials under narrow exceptions. The law defines covered items as public displays and related online content.
- Indigenous communities face stronger consultation requirements when changes are considered. The Comptroller General must report to Congress within one year on co-stewardship agreements and recommend ways to improve those processes to meet Federal trust obligations.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Protect park signs and exhibits
If enacted, the bill would require interpretive and educational materials on public display at National Park units to be historically and culturally accurate. The Secretary of the Interior would be prohibited from removing, obscuring, editing, or otherwise altering those accurate materials when they match a unit's purposes and foundational documents. The Secretary would be allowed to remove or change materials only to update accurate information or to accommodate new accurate exhibits. When updating or adding exhibits, the Secretary would have to consult relevant constituencies, including Indian Tribes when appropriate.
Restore park displays removed since 2025
If enacted, the bill would require the Secretary of the Interior to replace or restore any historically and culturally accurate interpretive materials that were removed, obscured, edited, or altered between January 20, 2025 and the bill's enactment. The Secretary would have to finish the replacement or restoration not later than 180 days after enactment. This requirement would apply only to materials that meet the historical and cultural accuracy standard.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Davids, Sharice [D-KS-3]
KS • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Goldman, Daniel S. [D-NY-10]
NY • D
Sponsored 4/28/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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