In the Senate of the United States,
August 3, 2007.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 2358) entitled ‘‘An Act to require the Secretary
of the Treasury to mint and issue coins in commemoration
of Native Americans and the important contributions made
by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the de-
velopment of the United States and the history of the United
States, and for other purposes.’’, do pass with the following
AMENDMENT:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Native American $1
Coin Act’’.
SEC. 2. NATIVE AMERICAN $1 COIN PROGRAM.
Section 5112 of title 31, United States Code, is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(r) REDESIGN AND ISSUANCE OF CIRCULATING $1
COINS HONORING NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE IMPOR-
TANT CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY INDIAN TRIBES AND INDI-
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VIDUAL NATIVE AMERICANS
IN UNITED STATES HIS-
TORY.—
‘‘(1) REDESIGN BEGINNING IN 2008.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Effective beginning
January 1, 2008, notwithstanding subsection
(d), in addition to the coins to be issued pursu-
ant to subsection (n), and in accordance with
this subsection, the Secretary shall mint and
issue $1 coins that—
‘‘(i) have as the designs on the obverse
the so-called ‘Sacagawea design’; and
‘‘(ii) have a design on the reverse se-
lected in accordance with paragraph (2)(A),
subject to paragraph (3)(A).
‘‘(B) DELAYED DATE.—If the date of the en-
actment of the Native American $1 Coin Act is
after August 25, 2007, subparagraph (A) shall be
applied by substituting ‘2009’ for ‘2008’.
‘‘(2) DESIGN
REQUIREMENTS.—The $1 coins
issued in accordance with paragraph (1) shall meet
the following design requirements:
‘‘(A) COIN REVERSE.—The design on the re-
verse shall bear—
‘‘(i) images celebrating the important
contributions made by Indian tribes and
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individual Native Americans to the develop-
ment of the United States and the history
of the United States;
‘‘(ii) the inscription ‘$1’ ; and
‘‘(iii) the inscription ‘United States of
America’.
‘‘(B) COIN OBVERSE.—The design on the ob-
verse shall—
‘‘(i) be chosen by the Secretary, after
consultation with the Commission of Fine
Arts and review by the Citizens Coinage
Advisory Committee; and
‘‘(ii) contain the so-called ‘Sacagawea
design’ and the inscription ‘Liberty’.
‘‘(C) EDGE-INCUSED INSCRIPTIONS.—
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The inscription of
the year of minting and issuance of the coin
and the inscriptions ‘E Pluribus Unum’
and ‘In God We Trust’ shall be edge-incused
into the coin.
‘‘(ii) PRESERVATION
OF
DISTINCTIVE
EDGE.—The edge-incusing of the inscrip-
tions under clause (i) on coins issued under
this subsection shall be done in a manner
that preserves the distinctive edge of the
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coin so that the denomination of the coin is
readily discernible, including by individ-
uals who are blind or visually impaired.
‘‘(D) REVERSE
DESIGN
SELECTION.—The
designs selected for the reverse of the coins de-
scribed under this subsection—
‘‘(i) shall be chosen by the Secretary
after consultation with the Committee on
Indian Affairs of the Senate, the Congres-
sional Native American Caucus of the
House of Representatives, the Commission
of Fine Arts, and the National Congress of
American Indians;
‘‘(ii) shall be reviewed by the Citizens
Coinage Advisory Committee;
‘‘(iii) may depict individuals and
events such as—
‘‘(I) the creation of Cherokee writ-
ten language;
‘‘(II) the Iroquois Confederacy;
‘‘(III) 
Wampanoag 
Chief
Massasoit;
‘‘(IV) the ‘Pueblo Revolt’;
‘‘(V) Olympian Jim Thorpe;
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‘‘(VI) Ely S. Parker, a general on
the staff of General Ulysses S. Grant
and later head of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs; and
‘‘(VII) code talkers who served the
United States Armed Forces during
World War I and World War II; and
‘‘(iv) in the case of a design depicting
the contribution of an individual Native
American to the development of the United
States and the history of the United States,
shall not depict the individual in a size
such that the coin could be considered to be
a ‘2-headed’ coin.
‘‘(3) ISSUANCE OF COINS COMMEMORATING 1 NA-
TIVE AMERICAN EVENT DURING EACH YEAR.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each design for the re-
verse of the $1 coins issued during each year
shall be emblematic of 1 important Native Amer-
ican or Native American contribution each year.
‘‘(B) ISSUANCE
PERIOD.—Each $1 coin
minted with a design on the reverse in accord-
ance with this subsection for any year shall be
issued during the 1-year period beginning on
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January 1 of that year and shall be available
throughout the entire 1-year period.
‘‘(C) ORDER OF ISSUANCE OF DESIGNS.—
Each coin issued under this subsection com-
memorating 
Native 
Americans 
and 
their
contributions—
‘‘(i) shall be issued, to the maximum
extent practicable, in the chronological
order in which the Native Americans lived
or the events occurred, until the termination
of the coin program described in subsection
(n); and
‘‘(ii) thereafter shall be issued in any
order determined to be appropriate by the
Secretary, after consultation with the Com-
mittee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, the
Congressional Native American Caucus of
the House of Representatives, and the Na-
tional Congress of American Indians.
‘‘(4) ISSUANCE OF NUMISMATIC COINS.—The Sec-
retary may mint and issue such number of $1 coins
of each design selected under this subsection in uncir-
culated and proof qualities as the Secretary deter-
mines to be appropriate.
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‘‘(5) QUANTITY.—The number of $1 coins minted
and issued in a year with the Sacagawea-design on
the obverse shall be not less than 20 percent of the
total number of $1 coins minted and issued in such
year.’’.
SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
Section 5112(n)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by striking the paragraph designation and
heading and all that follows through ‘‘Notwith-
standing subsection (d)’’ and inserting the following:
‘‘(1) REDESIGN
BEGINNING
IN
2007.—Notwith-
standing subsection (d)’’;
(2) by striking subparagraph (B); and
(3) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as sub-
paragraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and indenting
the subparagraphs appropriately.
SEC. 4. REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO CIRCULATION OF $1
COIN.
(a) IN GENERAL.—In order to remove barriers to cir-
culation, the Secretary of the Treasury shall carry out an
aggressive, cost-effective, continuing campaign to encourage
commercial enterprises to accept and dispense $1 coins that
have as designs on the obverse the so-called ‘‘Sacagawea de-
sign’’.
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(b) REPORT.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall sub-
mit to Congress an annual report on the success of the ef-
forts described in subsection (a).
Attest:
Secretary.