SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Boy Scouts of America 
Centennial Commemorative Coin Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) The Boy Scouts of America will celebrate 
its centennial on February 8, 2010. 
(2) The Boy Scouts of America is the largest 
youth organization in the United States, with 
3,000,000 youth members and 1,000,000 adult lead-
ers in the traditional programs of Cub Scouts, Boy 
Scouts, and Venturing. 
(3) Since 1910, more than 111,000,000 youth 
have participated in Scouting’s traditional programs. 
(4) The Boy Scouts of America was granted a 
Federal charter in 1916 by an Act of the 64th Con-
gress which was signed into law by President Wood-
row Wilson. 
(5) In the 110th Congress, 248 members of the 
House of Representative and the Senate have par-
ticipated in Boy Scouts of America as Scouts or 
adult leaders. 
(6) The mission of the Boy Scouts of America 
is ‘‘to prepare young people to make ethical and 
moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in 
them the values of the Scout Oath and Law’’.
(7) Every day across our Nation, Scouts and 
their leaders pledge to live up the promise in the 
Scout Oath—‘‘On my honor I will do my best, To 
do my duty to God and my country and to obey the 
Scout Law; To help other people at all times; To 
keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and 
morally straight’’—and the Scout Law, according to 
which a Scout is ‘‘Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, 
Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, 
Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent’’. 
(8) In the past 4 years alone, Scouting youth 
and their leaders have volunteered more than 
6,500,000 hours of service to their communities 
through more than 75,000 service projects, bene-
fiting food banks, local schools, and civic organiza-
tions. 
SEC. 3. COIN SPECIFICATIONS. 
(a) $1 SILVER COINS.—The Secretary of the Treas-
ury (hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) 
shall mint and issue not more than 350,000 $1 coins in 
commemoration of the centennial of the founding of the 
Boy Scouts of America, each of which shall— 
(1) weigh 26.73 grams; 
(2) have a diameter of 1.500 inches; and
(3) contain 90 percent silver and 10 percent 
copper. 
(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 design of the coins 
minted under this Act shall be emblematic of the 
100 years of the largest youth organization in 
United States, the Boy Scouts of America. 
(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 ‘‘2010’’; 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 Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of 
America and the Commission of Fine Arts; 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) MINT FACILITY.—Only 1 facility of the United 
States Mint may be used to strike any particular quality 
of the coins minted under this Act. 
(c) PERIOD
FOR ISSUANCE.—The Secretary may 
issue coins under this Act only on or after February 8, 
2010, and before January 1, 2011. 
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; 
(2) the surcharge provided in section 7 with re-
spect to such coins; and 
(3) the cost of designing and issuing the coins 
(including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, 
overhead expenses, marketing, and shipping).
(b) BULK SALES.—The Secretary shall make bulk 
sales of the coins issued under this Act at a reasonable 
discount. 
(c) PREPAID ORDERS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall accept 
prepaid orders for the coins minted under this Act 
before the issuance of such coins. 
(2) DISCOUNT.—Sale prices with respect to pre-
paid orders under paragraph (1) shall be at a rea-
sonable discount. 
SEC. 7. SURCHARGES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—All sales of coins issued under this 
Act shall include a surcharge of $10 per coin. 
(b) DISTRIBUTION.—Subject to section 5134(f) of 
title 31, United States Code, all surcharges received by 
the Secretary from the sale of coins issued under this Act 
shall be paid to the National Boy Scouts of America Foun-
dation, which funds will be made available to local councils 
in the form of grants for the extension of Scouting in hard 
to serve areas. 
(c) AUDITS.—The Comptroller General of the United 
States shall have the right to examine such books, records, 
documents, and other data of the National Boy Scouts of 
America Foundation as may be related to the expenditures 
of amounts paid under subsection (b).