What Public Law number created the United States Semiquincentennial Commission?

What Public Law number created the United States Semiquincentennial Commission? The answer is Public Law 114-196.

Congress created the commission through the United States Semiquincentennial Commission Act of 2016, enacted as Public Law 114-196 on July 22, 2016. The law established a federal commission to plan and coordinate observances of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

The commission was designed as a bipartisan and nonpartisan national planning body. Its responsibilities included recommending anniversary programs, coordinating with federal agencies and states, encouraging historical and educational activities, and helping organize observances at places connected with the nation’s founding and Revolutionary-era history.

The law also authorized commemorative initiatives such as coins, postage stamps, and appropriately named naval vessels. Its list of historically significant leading cities included Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, and Charleston, South Carolina. Public Law 114-196 is sometimes confused with later appropriations or unrelated legislation from the 116th and 117th Congresses, but those numbers did not create the commission.