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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3082 

To require $20 notes to include a portrait of Harriet Tubman, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 4, 2019 

Mrs. BEATTY (for herself, Ms. VELA ́ZQUEZ, Ms. MENG, Ms. LEE of California, 

Mr. RASKIN, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. CLAY, Mr. GREEN of Texas, and Mr. HASTINGS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Financial Services 

A BILL 

To require $20 notes to include a portrait of Harriet 

Tubman, and for other purposes. 

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 ‘‘Woman on the Twenty 

5 Act of 2019’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds the following: 

8 (1) In 1875, Congress adopted the dollar as the 

9 monetary unit of the United States. 


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1 (2) In 1877, the Bureau of Engraving and 

2 Printing of the Department of the Treasury began 

3 printing all United States paper money. 

4 (3) The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created 

5 the Federal Reserve as the Nation’s central bank 

6 and provided for a national banking system. The 

7 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 

8 issued new paper money called Federal Reserve 

9 notes. 

10 (4) The Secretary of the Treasury has histori11 cally selected the designs shown on Federal Reserve 

12 notes with the advice of the Bureau of Engraving 

13 and Printing. 

14 (5) United States Federal Reserve notes now in 

15 production bear the following portraits: 

16 (A) President George Washington on the 

17 $1 bill. 

18 (B) President Thomas Jefferson on the $2 

19 bill. 

20 (C) President Abraham Lincoln on the $5 

21 bill. 

22 (D) Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill. 

23 (E) President Andrew Jackson on the $20 

24 bill. 


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1 (F) President Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 

2 bill. 

3 (G) Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill. 

4 (6) There are also several denominations of 

5 Federal Reserve notes that are no longer produced. 

6 These include the $500 bill with the portrait of 

7 President William McKinley, the $1,000 bill with a 

8 portrait of President Grover Cleveland, the $5,000 

9 bill with a portrait of President James Madison, the 

10 $10,000 bill with a portrait of Salmon P. Chase, and 

11 the $100,000 bill with a portrait of President Wood12 row Wilson. 

13 (7) Since the first general circulation of paper 

14 money, no woman has ever held the honor of being 

15 featured on paper money. 

16 (8) In June 2015, then-Treasury Secretary 

17 Jack Lew announced that the portrait of a woman 

18 would be featured on the new $10 bill. 

19 (9) After a lengthy period of public engagement 

20 between the public and the Department of the 

21 Treasury, on April 20, 2016, then-Treasury Sec22 retary Lew announced that ‘‘for the first time in 

23 more than a century, the front of our currency will 

24 feature the portrait of a woman—Harriet Tubman 

25 on the $20 note.’’ Additionally, the Secretary anVerDate Sep 11 2014 04:12 Jun 12, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H3082.IH H3082

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1 nounced the reverse of the new $10 note would fea2 ture an image of the historic march for suffrage that 

3 ended on the steps of the United States Department 

4 of Treasury, featuring the leaders of the suffrage 

5 movement—Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan 

6 B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice 

7 Paul. Finally, the Secretary also announced the re8 verse of the $5 note would feature an image of his9 toric figures at the Lincoln Memorial who shaped 

10 our history and democracy, including Marian Ander11 son, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr. 

12 SEC. 3. HARRIET TUBMAN ON THE $20 NOTE. 

13 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5114(b) of title 31, 

14 United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 

15 following: ‘‘No $20 note of United States currency may 

16 be printed after December 31, 2022, which does not 

17 prominently feature a portrait of Harriet Tubman on the 

18 front face of the note.’’. 

19 (b) PRELIMINARY DESIGN.—The Secretary of the 

20 Treasury shall release to the public the preliminary design 

21 of the $20 note prominently featuring a portrait of Har22 riet Tubman no later than December 31, 2020. 

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