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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2404 
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration 
of Cesar Chavez’s work for the betterment of legal workers, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 8, 2021 
Mr. GOSAR introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins 
in commemoration of Cesar Chavez’s work for the better-
ment of legal workers, 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 ‘‘Cesar Chavez Com-
memorative Coin Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) Cesar Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, 
in Yuma, Arizona. 
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(2) In 1962, Chavez founded the National 
Farm Workers Association, which later became the 
United Farm Workers, to improve the wages and 
working conditions for American farmworkers. 
(3) Chavez’s union drew on the imagery of civil 
rights to use nonviolence and mass mobilization to 
improve the conditions of persecuted and impover-
ished American workers. 
(4) Chavez believed that preventing illegal im-
migration was an essential prerequisite to improving 
the circumstances of American farmworkers. 
(5) In 1969, Chavez led a march to the Mexi-
can border to protest illegal immigration, joined by 
Senator Walter Mondale and Martin Luther King’s 
successor as head of the Southern Christian Leader-
ship Conference, Ralph Abernathy. 
(6) Chavez noted that it is ‘‘almost impossible 
to start some effective program to get these people 
their jobs back from the braceros’’ once employers 
replace them. 
(7) In the 1970s, Chavez combined a campaign 
of identifying and reporting illegal workers with a 
campaign to boycott nonunionized farms in order to 
protect the labor of the unionized American worker. 
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(8) Chavez recognized that flooding the labor 
market with people from abroad undermines the 
unionized American worker. 
(9) In 1979, at the National Press Club, Cha-
vez emphatically supported enforcement of immigra-
tion laws, stating that ‘‘people are being hurt and 
being destroyed, and with the complicity and with 
the help, of the Federal Government’’. 
(10) President Clinton recognized Chavez’s 
work saying, ‘‘We can be proud of his enormous ac-
complishments and in the dignity and comfort he 
brought to the lives of so many of our country’s 
least powerful and most dispossessed workers.’’. 
SEC. 3. COIN SPECIFICATIONS. 
(a) DENOMINATIONS.—The Secretary of the Treas-
ury (hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) 
shall mint and issue the following coin: 
(1) $5 GOLD COINS.—Not more than 50,000 $5 
coins, which shall— 
(A) weigh 8.359 grams; 
(B) have a diameter of 0.850 inches; and 
(C) contain not less than 90 percent gold. 
(2) $1 SILVER COINS.—Not more than 400,000 
$1 coins, which shall— 
(A) weigh 26.73 grams; 
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(B) have a diameter of 1.500 inches; and 
(C) contain not less than 90 percent silver. 
(3) HALF-DOLLAR
CLAD
COINS.—Not more 
than 750,000 half-dollar coins which shall— 
(A) weigh 11.34 grams; 
(B) have a diameter of 1.205 inches; and 
(C) be minted to the specifications for half- 
dollar coins contained in section 5112(b) of title 
31, United States Code. 
(b) LEGAL TENDER.—The coins minted under this 
Act shall be legal tender, as provided in section 5103 of 
title 31, United States Code. 
(c) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of sections 
5134 and 5136 of title 31, United States Code, all coins 
minted under this Act shall be considered to be numis-
matic items. 
SEC. 4. DESIGN OF COINS. 
(a) DESIGN REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The designs of the coins 
minted under this Act shall be emblematic of Cesar 
Chavez and his fight to defend the interests of 
American farmworkers, his birth in Yuma, Arizona, 
and his commitment to and work for American agri-
cultural workers. At least one coin design shall in-
clude the name and likeliness of Cesar Chavez. 
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(2) DESIGNATION
AND
INSCRIPTIONS.—On 
each coin minted under this Act, there shall be— 
(A) a designation of the value of the coin; 
(B) an inscription of the year ‘‘2024’’; and 
(C) inscriptions of the words ‘‘Liberty’’, 
‘‘In God We Trust’’, ‘‘United States of Amer-
ica’’, and ‘‘E Pluribus Unum’’. 
(b) SELECTION.—The design for the coins minted 
under this Act shall be— 
(1) selected by the Secretary after consultation 
with the Commission of Fine Arts and the Smithso-
nian Institution; and 
(2) reviewed by the Citizens Coinage Advisory 
Committee. 
SEC. 5. ISSUANCE OF COINS. 
(a) QUALITY OF COINS.—Coins minted under this 
Act shall be issued in uncirculated and proof qualities. 
(b) PERIOD
FOR ISSUANCE.—The Secretary may 
issue coins minted under this Act only during the 1-year 
period beginning on January 1, 2024. 
SEC. 6. SALE OF COINS. 
(a) SALE PRICE.—The coins issued under this Act 
shall be sold by the Secretary at a price equal to the sum 
of— 
(1) the face value of the coins; 
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