Which congressional commission was created in 2016 to plan the United States' 250th anniversary?

The United States Semiquincentennial Commission was created by Congress in 2016 to plan the United States' 250th anniversary.

The commission is a nonpartisan federal organization responsible for coordinating and encouraging commemorations of the Declaration of Independence's 250th anniversary. Its public identity is commonly presented as America250.

Congress created the commission four decades after the nationwide bicentennial celebrations of 1976. Its work involves federal agencies, states, territories, tribes, communities, educational groups, and cultural organizations rather than a single event in one city.

The commission's name reflects the anniversary's technical term, semiquincentennial. It should not be confused with the National Archives, which preserves the original Declaration, or with the Continental Congress, the eighteenth-century body that adopted the document.