Sec. 3. Removal of certain other statues and busts

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Not later than 45 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Joint Committee on the Library, together with the Curator of the House of Representatives or the Curator of the Senate (as the case may be), shall remove all Confederate statues and Confederate busts from any area of the United States Capitol which is accessible to the public. In this subsection, the term Confederate statue means a statue which was provided by a State for display in the United States Capitol that depicts— any individual who served voluntarily at any time as a member of the Armed Forces of the Confederate States of America or of the military of a State while the State was in open rebellion against the United States; or any individual who served as an official of the Government of the Confederate States of America or as an official of a State while the State was in open rebellion against the United States.

In this subsection, the term Confederate bust means a bust which depicts an individual described in clause

(i)or

(ii)of subparagraph (A). Not later than 45 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Joint Committee on the Library shall remove the statue of Charles Brantley Aycock, the statue of John Caldwell Calhoun, and the statue of James Paul Clarke from any area of the United State Capitol which is accessible to the public. The Architect of the Capitol shall keep any statue or bust removed under this section in storage. This subsection does not apply with respect to any statue which is subject to removal under section 2.