I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 503 
To require $20 notes to include a portrait of Harriet Tubman, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 28, 2021 
Mrs. BEATTY (for herself, Mr. KATKO, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Mr. TORRES of New 
York, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, 
Mr. CARSON, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. HORSFORD, Mr. BISHOP of 
Georgia, Mr. PAYNE, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Ms. PINGREE, and Mr. 
MCEACHIN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To require $20 notes to include a portrait of Harriet 
Tubman, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Woman on the Twenty 
Act of 2021’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) In 1875, Congress adopted the dollar as the 
monetary unit of the United States. 
(2) In 1877, the Bureau of Engraving and 
Printing of the Department of the Treasury began 
printing all United States paper money. 
(3) The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created 
the Federal Reserve as the Nation’s central bank 
and provided for a national banking system. The 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 
issued new paper money called Federal Reserve 
notes. 
(4) The Secretary of the Treasury has histori-
cally selected the designs shown on Federal Reserve 
notes with the advice of the Bureau of Engraving 
and Printing. 
(5) United States Federal Reserve notes now in 
production bear the following portraits: 
(A) President George Washington on the 
$1 bill. 
(B) President Thomas Jefferson on the $2 
bill. 
(C) President Abraham Lincoln on the $5 
bill. 
(D) Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill. 
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(E) President Andrew Jackson on the $20 
bill. 
(F) President Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 
bill. 
(G) Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill. 
(6) There are also several denominations of 
Federal Reserve notes that are no longer produced. 
These include the $500 bill with the portrait of 
President William McKinley, the $1,000 bill with a 
portrait of President Grover Cleveland, the $5,000 
bill with a portrait of President James Madison, the 
$10,000 bill with a portrait of Salmon P. Chase, and 
the $100,000 bill with a portrait of President Wood-
row Wilson. 
(7) Since the first general circulation of paper 
money, no woman has ever held the honor of being 
featured on paper money. 
(8) In June 2015, then-Treasury Secretary 
Jack Lew announced that the portrait of a woman 
would be featured on the new $10 bill. 
(9) After a lengthy period of public engagement 
between the public and the Department of the 
Treasury, on April 20, 2016, then-Treasury Sec-
retary Lew announced that ‘‘for the first time in 
more than a century, the front of our currency will 
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feature the portrait of a woman—Harriet Tubman 
on the $20 note.’’ Additionally, the Secretary an-
nounced the reverse of the new $10 note would fea-
ture an image of the historic march for suffrage that 
ended on the steps of the United States Department 
of Treasury, featuring the leaders of the suffrage 
movement—Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan 
B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice 
Paul. Finally, the Secretary also announced the re-
verse of the $5 note would feature an image of his-
toric figures at the Lincoln Memorial who shaped 
our history and democracy, including Marian Ander-
son, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr. 
SEC. 3. HARRIET TUBMAN ON THE $20 NOTE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5114(b) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following: ‘‘No $20 note of United States currency may 
be printed after December 31, 2024, which does not 
prominently feature a portrait of Harriet Tubman on the 
front face of the note.’’. 
(b) PRELIMINARY DESIGN.—The Secretary of the 
Treasury shall release to the public the preliminary design 
of the $20 note prominently featuring a portrait of Har-
riet Tubman no later than December 31, 2022. 
Æ 
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