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Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area Act
This act directs the Department of the Interior to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating a study area comprised of cities and counties in Virginia and counties in North Carolina as a National Heritage Area to be known as the Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area.
The study shall include analysis, documentation, and determinations on whether the study area (1) has an assemblage of natural, historic, and cultural resources that represent distinctive aspects of the people and culture of the United States; and (2) are worthy of recognition, conservation, interpretation, and continuing use.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 1154 as public Law on Jan 5, 2023. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
House Sep 28, 2021
Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area Act
Passed · Two-thirds required
391 Yea 36 Nay 4 not voting
Crossed both parties 36 of 427 voting members broke with their own party: 36 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
431 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 1154 and vote against it. 3 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 1154 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
19 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-04. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.