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This act establishes a National Heritage Area System.
The Department of the Interior may provide technical and financial assistance to local coordinating entities to support the establishment, development, and continuity of such areas.
The National Heritage Area System shall be composed of
A National Heritage Area shall not be considered to be a unit of the National Park System nor subject to the authorities applicable to such units.
Interior may carry out or review a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of each proposed heritage area for designation as a National Heritage Area. Interior must review and certify whether the proposed area meets specified requirements, including that it has natural, historic, and cultural resources that represent distinctive aspects of the heritage of the United States.
An area shall be designated as a National Heritage Area only by an act of Congress.
Interior shall conduct studies to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating specified areas in Hawaii as the Kaena Point National Heritage Area and in Virginia and North Carolina as the Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area.
The act also (1) establishes or extends specified National Heritage Areas, (2) redesignates the America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership in Iowa as the Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area, and (3) extends the deadline for the management plans for certain heritage areas.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing S. 1942 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 Dec 22, 2022
National Heritage Area Act
Passed
326 Yea 95 Nay 9 not voting
Crossed both parties 95 of 421 voting members broke with their own party: 95 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
430 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 S. 1942 and vote against it. 14 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named S. 1942 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
16 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. 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.