IIB 
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2993
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MARCH 29, 2004
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs 
AN ACT 
To provide for a circulating quarter dollar coin program 
to honor the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth 
of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United 
States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘District of Columbia 
and United States Territories Circulating Quarter Dollar 
Program Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ISSUANCE OF REDESIGNED QUARTER DOLLARS 
HONORING THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND 
EACH OF THE TERRITORIES. 
Section 5112 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after subsection (m) the following 
new subsection: 
‘‘(n) REDESIGN
AND ISSUANCE
OF CIRCULATING 
QUARTER DOLLAR HONORING THE DISTRICT OF COLUM-
BIA AND EACH OF THE TERRITORIES.—
‘‘(1) REDESIGN IN 2009.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding the 
fourth sentence of subsection (d)(1) and sub-
section (d)(2) and subject to paragraph (6)(B), 
quarter dollar coins issued during 2009, shall 
have designs on the reverse side selected in ac-
cordance with this subsection which are em-
blematic of the District of Columbia and the 
territories.
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‘‘(B) FLEXIBILITY
WITH
REGARD
TO 
PLACEMENT
OF
INSCRIPTIONS.—Notwith-
standing subsection (d)(1), the Secretary may 
select a design for quarter dollars issued during 
2009 in which—
(i) the inscription described in the sec-
ond sentence of subsection (d)(1) appears 
on the reverse side of any such quarter 
dollars; and 
(ii) any inscription described in the 
third sentence of subsection (d)(1) or the 
designation of the value of the coin ap-
pears on the obverse side of any such quar-
ter dollars. 
‘‘(2) SINGLE
DISTRICT
OR
TERRITORY
DE-
SIGN.—The design on the reverse side of each quar-
ter dollar issued during 2009 shall be emblematic of 
one of the following: The District of Columbia, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American 
Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 
‘‘(3) SELECTION OF DESIGN.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each of the 6 designs 
required under this subsection for quarter dol-
lars shall be—
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bear dignified designs of which the citizens of 
the United States can be proud, the Secretary 
shall not select any frivolous or inappropriate 
design for any quarter dollar minted under this 
subsection. 
‘‘(E) PROHIBITION
ON
CERTAIN
REP-
RESENTATIONS.—No head and shoulders por-
trait or bust of any person, living or dead, and 
no portrait of a living person may be included 
in the design of any quarter dollar under this 
subsection. 
‘‘(4) TREATMENT AS NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For 
purposes of sections 5134 and 5136, all coins mint-
ed under this subsection shall be considered to be 
numismatic items. 
‘‘(5) ISSUANCE.—
‘‘(A) QUALITY OF COINS.—The Secretary 
may mint and issue such number of quarter 
dollars of each design selected under paragraph 
(4) in uncirculated and proof qualities as the 
Secretary determines to be appropriate. 
‘‘(B) 
SILVER
COINS.—Notwithstanding 
subsection (b), the Secretary may mint and 
issue such number of quarter dollars of each 
design selected under paragraph (4) as the Sec-
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retary determines to be appropriate, with a con-
tent of 90 percent silver and 10 percent copper. 
‘‘(C) TIMING AND ORDER OF ISSUANCE.—
Coins minted under this subsection honoring 
the District of Columbia and each of the terri-
tories shall be issued in equal sequential inter-
vals during 2009 in the following order: the 
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the 
United States Virgin Islands, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 
‘‘(6) OTHER PROVISIONS.—
‘‘(A) APPLICATION IN EVENT OF ADMIS-
SION AS A STATE.—If the District of Columbia 
or any territory becomes a State before the end 
of the 10-year period referred to in subsection 
(l)(1), subsection (l)(7) shall apply, and this 
subsection shall not apply, with respect to such 
State. 
‘‘(B) APPLICATION
IN
EVENT
OF
INDE-
PENDENCE.—If any territory becomes inde-
pendent or otherwise ceases to be a territory or 
possession of the United States before quarter 
dollars bearing designs which are emblematic of 
such territory are minted pursuant to this sub-
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section, this subsection shall cease to apply with 
respect to such territory. 
‘‘(7) TERRITORY
DEFINED.—For purposes of 
this subsection, the term ‘territory’ means the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, 
the United States Virgin Islands, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.’’.
Passed the House of Representatives March 25, 
2004. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.