In the Senate of the United States,

August 3, 2007.

Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 2358) entitled ‘‘An Act to require the Secretary

of the Treasury to mint and issue coins in commemoration

of Native Americans and the important contributions made

by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the development of the United States and the history of the United

States, and for other purposes.’’, do pass with the following

AMENDMENT:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Native American $1

3 Coin Act’’.

4 SEC. 2. NATIVE AMERICAN $1 COIN PROGRAM.

5 Section 5112 of title 31, United States Code, is amend6 ed by adding at the end the following:

7 ‘‘(r) REDESIGN AND ISSUANCE OF CIRCULATING $1

8 COINS HONORING NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE IMPOR9 TANT CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY INDIAN TRIBES AND INDI-
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1 VIDUAL NATIVE AMERICANS IN UNITED STATES HIS2 TORY.—

3 ‘‘(1) REDESIGN BEGINNING IN 2008.—

4 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Effective beginning

5 January 1, 2008, notwithstanding subsection

6 (d), in addition to the coins to be issued pursu7 ant to subsection (n), and in accordance with

8 this subsection, the Secretary shall mint and

9 issue $1 coins that—

10 ‘‘(i) have as the designs on the obverse

11 the so-called ‘Sacagawea design’; and

12 ‘‘(ii) have a design on the reverse se13 lected in accordance with paragraph (2)(A),

14 subject to paragraph (3)(A).

15 ‘‘(B) DELAYED DATE.—If the date of the en16 actment of the Native American $1 Coin Act is

17 after August 25, 2007, subparagraph (A) shall be

18 applied by substituting ‘2009’ for ‘2008’.

19 ‘‘(2) DESIGN REQUIREMENTS.—The $1 coins

20 issued in accordance with paragraph (1) shall meet

21 the following design requirements:

22 ‘‘(A) COIN REVERSE.—The design on the re23 verse shall bear—

24 ‘‘(i) images celebrating the important

25 contributions made by Indian tribes and
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1 individual Native Americans to the develop2 ment of the United States and the history

3 of the United States;

4 ‘‘(ii) the inscription ‘$1’ ; and

5 ‘‘(iii) the inscription ‘United States of

6 America’.

7 ‘‘(B) COIN OBVERSE.—The design on the ob8 verse shall—

9 ‘‘(i) be chosen by the Secretary, after

10 consultation with the Commission of Fine

11 Arts and review by the Citizens Coinage

12 Advisory Committee; and

13 ‘‘(ii) contain the so-called ‘Sacagawea

14 design’ and the inscription ‘Liberty’.

15 ‘‘(C) EDGE-INCUSED INSCRIPTIONS.—

16 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The inscription of

17 the year of minting and issuance of the coin

18 and the inscriptions ‘E Pluribus Unum’

19 and ‘In God We Trust’ shall be edge-incused

20 into the coin.

21 ‘‘(ii) PRESERVATION OF DISTINCTIVE

22 EDGE.—The edge-incusing of the inscrip23 tions under clause (i) on coins issued under

24 this subsection shall be done in a manner

25 that preserves the distinctive edge of the
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1 coin so that the denomination of the coin is

2 readily discernible, including by individ3 uals who are blind or visually impaired.

4 ‘‘(D) REVERSE DESIGN SELECTION.—The

5 designs selected for the reverse of the coins de6 scribed under this subsection—

7 ‘‘(i) shall be chosen by the Secretary

8 after consultation with the Committee on

9 Indian Affairs of the Senate, the Congres10 sional Native American Caucus of the

11 House of Representatives, the Commission

12 of Fine Arts, and the National Congress of

13 American Indians;

14 ‘‘(ii) shall be reviewed by the Citizens

15 Coinage Advisory Committee;

16 ‘‘(iii) may depict individuals and

17 events such as—

18 ‘‘(I) the creation of Cherokee writ19 ten language;

20 ‘‘(II) the Iroquois Confederacy;

21 ‘‘(III) Wampanoag Chief

22 Massasoit;

23 ‘‘(IV) the ‘Pueblo Revolt’;

24 ‘‘(V) Olympian Jim Thorpe;
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1 ‘‘(VI) Ely S. Parker, a general on

2 the staff of General Ulysses S. Grant

3 and later head of the Bureau of Indian

4 Affairs; and

5 ‘‘(VII) code talkers who served the

6 United States Armed Forces during

7 World War I and World War II; and

8 ‘‘(iv) in the case of a design depicting

9 the contribution of an individual Native

10 American to the development of the United

11 States and the history of the United States,

12 shall not depict the individual in a size

13 such that the coin could be considered to be

14 a ‘2-headed’ coin.

15 ‘‘(3) ISSUANCE OF COINS COMMEMORATING 1NA16 TIVE AMERICAN EVENT DURING EACH YEAR.—

17 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each design for the re18 verse of the $1 coins issued during each year

19 shall be emblematic of 1 important Native Amer20 ican or Native American contribution each year.

21 ‘‘(B) ISSUANCE PERIOD.—Each $1 coin

22 minted with a design on the reverse in accord23 ance with this subsection for any year shall be

24 issued during the 1-year period beginning on
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1 January 1 of that year and shall be available

2 throughout the entire 1-year period.

3 ‘‘(C) ORDER OF ISSUANCE OF DESIGNS.—

4 Each coin issued under this subsection com5 memorating Native Americans and their

6 contributions—

7 ‘‘(i) shall be issued, to the maximum

8 extent practicable, in the chronological

9 order in which the Native Americans lived

10 or the events occurred, until the termination

11 of the coin program described in subsection

12 (n); and

13 ‘‘(ii) thereafter shall be issued in any

14 order determined to be appropriate by the

15 Secretary, after consultation with the Com16 mittee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, the

17 Congressional Native American Caucus of

18 the House of Representatives, and the Na19 tional Congress of American Indians.

20 ‘‘(4) ISSUANCE OF NUMISMATIC COINS.—The Sec21 retary may mint and issue such number of $1 coins

22 of each design selected under this subsection in uncir23 culated and proof qualities as the Secretary deter24 mines to be appropriate.
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1 ‘‘(5) QUANTITY.—The number of $1 coins minted

2 and issued in a year with the Sacagawea-design on

3 the obverse shall be not less than 20 percent of the

4 total number of $1 coins minted and issued in such

5 year.’’.

6 SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

7 Section 5112(n)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is

8 amended—

9 (1) by striking the paragraph designation and

10 heading and all that follows through ‘‘Notwith11 standing subsection (d)’’ and inserting the following:

12 ‘‘(1) REDESIGN BEGINNING IN 2007.—Notwith13 standing subsection (d)’’;

14 (2) by striking subparagraph (B); and

15 (3) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as sub16 paragraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and indenting

17 the subparagraphs appropriately.

18 SEC. 4. REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO CIRCULATION OF $1

19 COIN.

20 (a) IN GENERAL.—In order to remove barriers to cir21 culation, the Secretary of the Treasury shall carry out an

22 aggressive, cost-effective, continuing campaign to encourage

23 commercial enterprises to accept and dispense $1 coins that

24 have as designs on the obverse the so-called ‘‘Sacagawea de25 sign’’.
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1 (b) REPORT.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall sub2 mit to Congress an annual report on the success of the ef3 forts described in subsection (a).

Attest:

Secretary.
110TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 2358

AMENDMENT