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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 9647 

To award a Congressional Gold Medal to former President Jimmy Carter 

in recognition of his service to the Nation. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024 

Mr. BISHOP of Georgia (for himself, Mr. NORCROSS, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of 

Georgia, Mr. CARTER of Georgia, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. FERGUSON, Mrs. MCBATH, Mr. LOUDERMILK, Ms. WILLIAMS of Georgia, Mr. 

DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, and Mr. MCCORMICK) introduced the following 

bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 

A BILL 

To award a Congressional Gold Medal to former President 

Jimmy Carter in recognition of his service to the Nation. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘President Jimmy Car5 ter Congressional Gold Medal Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds the following: 

8 (1) President Jimmy Carter served as the 39th 

9 President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. 


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1 (2) President Jimmy Carter, whose full name is 

2 James Earl Carter, Jr., was born on October 1, 

3 1924, in Plains, Georgia, a small farming town. 

4 (3) President Carter graduated from the United 

5 States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 

6 1946 and actively served as a submarine officer for 

7 7 years. He served in the Navy Reserve for another 

8 8 years, separating from the Navy with the rank of 

9 Lieutenant in 1961. 

10 (4) President Carter married his wife and life 

11 partner of 77 years, Rosalynn Smith, on July 7th, 

12 1946, in Plains, Georgia. 

13 (5) President Carter entered state politics in 

14 1962 and was elected to the Georgia State Senate 

15 from the 14th District in 1963. He was sworn in as 

16 the 76th governor of Georgia in 1971. During his 

17 tenure, he emphasized government efficiency and re18 moving racial discrimination. 

19 (6) Guided by his moral values and deep reli20 gious faith, Jimmy Carter’s presidency was charac21 terized by a commitment to championing civil and 

22 human rights around the world. His foreign policy 

23 accomplishments include the Panama Canal treaties, 

24 the Camp David Accords, the normalization and 

25 treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel following 


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1 the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, the SALT II nuclear 

2 limitation treaty with the Soviet Union, and the es3 tablishment of United States diplomatic relations 

4 with the People’s Republic of China. 

5 (7) President Jimmy Carter’s domestic legacy 

6 includes the Alaska National Interest Lands Con7 servation Act (16 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.), one of the 

8 most significant pieces of environmental legislation 

9 ever approved by Congress; the Nation’s first na10 tional energy policy; and the creation of the Depart11 ments of Education and Energy. 

12 (8) After his presidency, he founded the Carter 

13 Center along with his wife Rosalynn, which is dedi14 cated to conÖict resolution, supervising democratic 

15 elections abroad, and combating neglected tropical 

16 diseases. 

17 (9) Through their work with the Carter Center, 

18 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are credited with the 

19 near eradication of the painful parasitic infection 

20 known as Guinea worm disease, reducing cases from 

21 an estimated total of 3,500,000 in 1986 to just 14 

22 in 2023. 

23 (10) Through a partnership with Habitat for 

24 Humanity known as the Carter Work Project, 

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1 side over 100,000 volunteers across 14 countries to 

2 build, improve, and repair over 4,400 homes. 

3 (11) In 2002, Jimmy Carter became the third 

4 American President to win the Nobel Peace Prize 

5 for his ‘‘decades of untiring effort to find peaceful 

6 solutions to international conflicts, to advance de7 mocracy and human rights, and to promote eco8 nomic and social development’’. 

9 (12) President Carter exemplifies American vol10 untarism through his countless service activities in 

11 his home State of Georgia, throughout the United 

12 States, and across the world. 

13 SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 

14 (a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZED.—The Speaker of 

15 the House of Representatives and the President pro tem16 pore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements 

17 for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a single 

18 gold medal of appropriate design to former President 

19 Jimmy Carter in recognition of his service to the Nation. 

20 (b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For purposes of the 

21 presentation referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary 

22 of the Treasury (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘Sec23 retary’’) shall strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, 

24 devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the Sec25 retary. 


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1 SEC. 4. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 

2 The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in 

3 bronze of the gold medal struck under section 3, at a price 

4 sufficient to cover the costs thereof, including labor, mate5 rials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses. 

6 SEC. 5. STATUS OF MEDALS. 

7 (a) NATIONAL MEDAL.—Medals struck pursuant to 

8 this Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 51 

9 of title 31, United States Code. 

10 (b) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of sections 

11 5134 and 5136 of title 31, United States Code, all medals 

12 struck under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic 

13 items. 

14 SEC. 6. AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS; PROCEEDS OF 

15 SALE. 

16 (a) AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS.—There is 

17 authorized to be charged against the United States Mint 

18 Public Enterprise Fund such amounts as may be nec19 essary to pay for the costs of the medals struck under 

20 this Act. 

21 (b) PROCEEDS OF SALE.—Amounts received from the 

22 sale of duplicate bronze medals authorized under section 

23 4 shall be deposited into the United States Mint Public 

24 Enterprise Fund. 

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