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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4488 

To make technical corrections to two bills enabling the presentation of 

congressional gold medals, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 28, 2014 

Mr. LEWIS (for himself and Ms. BROWN of Florida) introduced the following 

bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in 

addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be 

subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 

of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To make technical corrections to two bills enabling the presentation of congressional gold medals, 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 ‘‘Gold Medal Technical 

5 Corrections Act of 2014’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO AN ACT THAT AU2 THORIZES PRESENTATION OF A CONGRES3 SIONAL GOLD MEDAL TO DR. MARTIN LU4 THER KING, JR., AND CORETTA SCOTT KING. 

5 Section 2 of Public Law 108–368 is amended— 

6 (1) in subsection (a)— 

7 (A) by striking all before ‘‘to present’’ and 

8 inserting the following: ‘‘(a) PRESENTATION

9 AUTHORIZED.—The Speaker of the House of 

10 Representatives and the President pro tempore 

11 of the Senate are authorized’’; and 

12 (B) by striking ‘‘(posthumously)’’; and 

13 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

14 ‘‘(c) SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.— 

15 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Following the award of the 

16 gold medal in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 

17 and Coretta Scott King under subsection (a), the 

18 gold medal shall be given to the Smithsonian Insti19 tution, where it shall be available for display as ap20 propriate and made available for research. 

21 ‘‘(2) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 

22 Congress that the Smithsonian Institution shall 

23 make the gold medal received under paragraph (1) 

24 available for display, particularly at the National 

25 Museum of African American History and Culture, 

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1 played elsewhere, particularly at other appropriate 

2 locations associated with the lives of Dr. Martin Lu3 ther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King.’’. 

4 SEC. 3. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO AN ACT THAT AU5 THORIZES PRESENTATION OF A CONGRES6 SIONAL GOLD MEDAL COLLECTIVELY TO THE 

7 MONTFORD POINT MARINES, UNITED STATES 

8 MARINE CORPS. 

9 Section 2 of Public Law 112–59 is amended by add10 ing at the end the following: 

11 ‘‘(c) SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.— 

12 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Following the award of the 

13 gold medal in honor of the Montford Point Marines, 

14 United States Marine Corps under subsection (a), 

15 the gold medal shall be given to the Smithsonian In16 stitution, where it shall be available for display as 

17 appropriate and made available for research. 

18 ‘‘(2) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 

19 Congress that the Smithsonian Institution shall 

20 make the gold medal received under paragraph (1) 

21 available for display, particularly at the National 

22 Museum of African American History and Culture, 

23 or for loan as appropriate so that it may be dis24 played elsewhere, particularly at other appropriate 


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1 locations associated with the Montford Point Ma2 rines.’’. 

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