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105TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3673
To amend the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act to extend the
program by an additional year for the purpose of including the District
of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United
States Virgin Islands within the scope of the program.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 1, 1998
Ms. NORTON
(for herself, Mr. CASTLE, Ms. CHRISTIAN-GREEN, Mr.
FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. UNDERWOOD, and Mr. ROMERO-BARCELO) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Banking
and Financial Services
A BILL
To amend the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act
to extend the program by an additional year for the
purpose of including the District of Columbia, American
Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United States Vir-
gin Islands within the scope of the program.
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 ‘‘50 States Commemo-
rative Coin Program Amendments Act of 1998’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) The 50 States Commemorative Coin Pro-
gram Act established a 10-year program for com-
memorating each of the 50 States through designs
on circulating quarter dollars issued during the ef-
fective period of the program.
(2) The District of Columbia, American Samoa,
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin
Islands are part of the United States and it is im-
portant that the youth of the United States, a large
number of whom are expected to collect complete
sets of the quarter dollars issued during the pro-
gram, learn about their national history, geography,
and heritage through the program.
SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO COIN PROGRAM.
Paragraph (7) of section 5112(l) of title 31, United
States Code, (as enacted by section 3 of the 50 States
Commemorative Coin Program Act) is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘(7) COMMEMORATION OF 5 TERRITORIES IN
11TH YEAR.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding the
4th sentence of subsection (d)(1) and sub-
section (d)(2), quarter dollar coins issued dur-
ing the year following the end of the 10-year
period referred to in paragraph (1) shall have
designs on the reverse side selected in accord-
ance with this subsection which are emblematic
of the District of Columbia, American Samoa,
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United States Vir-
gin Islands.
‘‘(B) APPLICABILITY
OF
OTHER
PARA-
GRAPHS.—Subject to subparagraph (C), para-
graphs (2), (3)(B), (4), (5), and (6) shall apply
to quarter dollars issued in accordance with this
paragraph in the same manner such paragraphs
apply to quarter dollars issued in accordance
with paragraph (1).
‘‘(C) APPLICATION OF TERMS.—For pur-
poses of subparagraph (B) of this paragraph—
‘‘(i) paragraph (4)(A) shall be applied
by substituting the term ‘highest-level
elected executive officer of the district or
territory’ for ‘Governor of the State’; and
‘‘(ii) subparagraphs (A) and (C) of
paragraph (4) shall be applied by sub-
stituting the term ‘district or territory’ for
‘State’.
‘‘(D) APPLICATION IN EVENT OF ADMIS-
SION AS A STATE.—If the District of Columbia,
American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the
United States Virgin Islands becomes a State
before the end of the 10-year period referred to
in paragraph (1), subparagraph (B) shall apply
and subparagraph (C) shall not apply with re-
spect to such State.’’.
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