In the Senate of the United States, 
June 20, 2018. 
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 770) entitled ‘‘An Act to require the Secretary of 
the Treasury to mint coins in recognition of American inno-
vation and significant innovation and pioneering efforts of in-
dividuals or groups from each of the 50 States, the District 
of Columbia, and the United States territories, to promote 
the importance of innovation in the United States, the Dis-
trict of Columbia, and the United States territories, and for 
other purposes.’’, do pass with the following 
AMENDMENT: 
Beginning on page 6, strike line 8 and all that fol-
lows through page 8, line 5, and insert the following: 
‘‘(A) ORDER OF ISSUANCE.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—The coins issued 
under this subsection commemorating either 
an innovation, an individual innovator, or 
a group of innovators, from each State, the
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District of Columbia, or a territory shall be 
issued in the following order: 
‘‘(I) STATE.—With respect to each 
State, the coins shall be issued in the 
order in which the States ratified the 
Constitution of the United States or 
were admitted into the Union, as the 
case may be. 
‘‘(II) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND 
TERRITORIES.—After all coins are 
issued under subclause (I), the coins 
shall be issued for the District of Co-
lumbia and the territories in the fol-
lowing order: the District of Columbia, 
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
Guam, American Samoa, the United 
States Virgin Islands, and the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands. 
‘‘(ii) APPLICATION IN EVENT OF THE 
ADMISSION OF ADDITIONAL STATES.—Not-
withstanding clause (i), if any additional 
State is admitted into the Union before the 
end of the 14-year period referred to in 
paragraph (1), the Secretary of the Treas-
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ury may issue a $1 coin with respect to the 
additional State in accordance with clause 
(i)(I). 
‘‘(iii) APPLICATION IN THE EVENT OF 
INDEPENDENCE
OR
ADDING
OF
A
TERRI-
TORY.—Notwithstanding clause (i)— 
‘‘(I) if any territory becomes inde-
pendent or otherwise ceases to be a ter-
ritory of the United States before $1 
coins are minted pursuant to this sub-
section, the subsection shall cease to 
apply with respect to such territory; 
and 
‘‘(II) if any new territory is 
added to the United States, $1 coins 
shall be issued for such territories in 
the order in which the new the terri-
tories are added, beginning after the $1 
coin is issued for the Commonwealth of 
the Northern Mariana Islands. 
‘‘(B) ISSUANCE OF COINS COMMEMORATING 
FOUR
INNOVATIONS
OR
INNOVATORS
DURING 
EACH OF 14 YEARS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Four $1 coin de-
signs as described in this subsection shall be
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issued during each year of the period re-
ferred to in paragraph (1) until 1 coin fea-
turing 1 innovation, an individual inno-
vator, or a group of innovators, from each 
of the States, the District of Columbia, and 
territories has been issued. 
‘‘(ii) NUMBER OF COINS OF EACH DE-
SIGN.—The Secretary shall prescribe, on the 
basis of such factors as the Secretary deter-
mines to be appropriate, the number of $1 
coins that shall be issued with each of the 
designs selected for each year of the period 
referred to in paragraph (1). 
Attest: 
Secretary.