IIB 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2722 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 16, 2015 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs 
AN ACT 
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins 
in recognition of the fight against breast cancer. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Breast Cancer Aware-
ness Commemorative Coin Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) Breast cancer is the most common cancer 
among American women, except for skin cancers. 
Today, about 1 in 8, or 12 percent of, women in the 
United States will develop invasive breast cancer 
during their lifetime. This is an increase from 1 in 
11, or 9 percent of, women in 1975. 
(2) Breast cancer is the second leading cause of 
cancer death in women. The chance of dying from 
breast cancer is about 1 in 36. Thanks to earlier de-
tection, increased awareness, and improved treat-
ment, death rates from breast cancer have decreased 
since about 1989. 
(3) There is a strong interest among the Amer-
ican public to do more to tackle this disease. The 
National Cancer Institute estimates $16.5 billion is 
spent in the United States each year on breast can-
cer treatment. Assuming that incidence and survival 
rates follow recent trends, it is estimated that $17.2 
billion will be spent on breast cancer care in the 
United States in 2014. 
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(4) Finding a cure for breast cancer is a goal 
of the United States Government. 
(5) The National Institutes of Health dedicated 
an estimated $674 million for breast cancer research 
in Fiscal Year 2014. In Fiscal Year 2014, the De-
partment of Defense’s Breast Cancer Research Pro-
gram received $120 million. 
(6) While the National Institutes of Health and 
the Department of Defense program on Breast Can-
cer research remain the largest funders of breast 
cancer research in the United States, in 2013, the 
National Cancer Institute funding was reduced by 
nearly $66 million since 2011. The funding level for 
the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research 
Program has remained consistent since 2012, how-
ever this amount represents a 20-percent decrease 
from 2011 funding levels. 
(7) Additional private sector support for breast 
cancer research will help us find cures for breast 
cancer even faster. 
(8) It is estimated that in the United States 
231,840 women will be diagnosed with and 40,290 
women will die of cancer of the breast in 2015. This 
means that every 13 minutes a woman dies of breast 
cancer in the United States. 
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(9) However, due to disease type and lack of 
adequate care, African-American women have the 
highest death rates of all racial and ethnic groups 
overall and are at least 44 percent more likely to die 
of breast cancer as compared to other racial and 
ethnic groups. 
(10) Breast cancer used to be considered a dis-
ease of aging but recent trends show that more ag-
gressive forms of the disease have been increasingly 
diagnosed in younger women. 
(11) Breast cancer is the most frequently diag-
nosed cancer among nearly every racial and ethnic 
group, including African-American, American In-
dian/Alaska Native, Asian/Pacific Islander, and His-
panic/Latina women. 
(12) Clinical advances, resulting from research, 
have led to increased survival from breast cancer. 
Since 1990, death rates from breast cancer have 
dropped over 34 percent. 
(13) Among men in the United States it is esti-
mated that there will be 2,350 new cases of invasive 
breast cancer and 440 breast cancer deaths in 2015. 
(14) At this time there are more than 3.1 mil-
lion breast cancer survivors in the United States. 
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(15) It is estimated that breast cancer costs 
$12.5 billion in lost productivity. Such productivity 
losses will increase with projected growth rate and 
aging of the U.S. population if cancer mortality 
rates stay constant in the future. 
(16) There is a better chance of survival and 
there are more treatment options with early stage 
detection through mammograms and clinical breast 
exams. 
(17) Breast cancer is the most common cancer 
in women worldwide, with an estimated 1.7 million 
new cases of breast cancer among women worldwide 
in 2012. 
(18) Breast Cancer Research Foundation 
(BCRF) is considered one of the most efficient can-
cer research charities. 
(19) Of every dollar donated to BCRF, $0.91 
goes to research and awareness programs—88 cents 
towards research and 3 cents towards awareness. 
(20) Founded in 1993, the BCRF has raised 
more than $500 million to fuel discoveries in tumor 
biology, genetics, prevention, treatment, survivor-
ship, and metastasis, making BCRF one of the larg-
est private funders of breast cancer research in the 
world. For 2014–2015, BCRF committed $58.6 mil-
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lion in research, including $11.6 million to the inter-
national Evelyn H. Lauder Founder’s Fund focused 
on metastasis, to support the work of more than 220 
researchers at leading medical institutions across 6 
continents (25 states and 14 countries). 
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 coins: 
(1) $5 GOLD COINS.—Not more than 50,000 $5 
gold coins, which shall— 
(A) have a diameter of 0.850 inches; and 
(B) be made of ‘‘pink gold’’ which contains 
not less than 75 percent gold. 
(2) $1 SILVER COINS.—Not more than 400,000 
$1 coins, which shall— 
(A) weigh 26.73 grams; 
(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 
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(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 design of the coins 
minted under this Act shall be emblematic of the 
fight against breast cancer. 
(2) DESIGNATION
AND
INSCRIPTIONS.—On 
each coin minted under this Act there shall be— 
(A) a designation of the face value of the 
coin; 
(B) an inscription of the year ‘‘2018’’; 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 selected by the Secretary based 
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on the winning design from a juried, compensated design 
competition described under subsection (c). 
(c) DESIGN COMPETITION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall hold a 
competition and provide compensation for its winner 
to design the obverse and reverse of the coins minted 
under this Act. The competition shall be judged by 
an expert jury chaired by the Secretary and con-
sisting of three members from the Citizens Coinage 
Advisory Committee who shall be elected by such 
Committee and three members from the Commission 
of Fine Arts who shall be elected by such Commis-
sion. 
(2) PROPOSALS.—As part of the competition 
described in this subsection, the Secretary may ac-
cept proposals from artists, engravers of the United 
States Mint, and members of the general public, and 
any designs submitted for the design review process 
described herein shall be anonymized until a final se-
lection is made. 
(3) ACCOMPANYING
DESIGNS; 
PREFERENCE 
FOR PHYSICAL DESIGNS.—The Secretary shall en-
courage three-dimensional designs to be submitted 
as part of the proposals, and the jury shall give a 
preference for proposals that are accompanied by a 
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three-dimensional physical design instead of, or in 
addition to, an electronic design. 
(4) COMPENSATION.—The Secretary shall de-
termine compensation for the winning design under 
this subsection, which shall be not less than $5,000. 
The Secretary shall take into account this compensa-
tion amount when determining the sale price de-
scribed in section 6(a). 
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, 2018. 
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(a) with 
respect to the coins; and 
(3) the cost of designing and issuing the coins 
(including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, 
overhead expenses, marketing, and shipping). 
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(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— 
(1) $35 per coin for the $5 coin; 
(2) $10 per coin for the $1 coin; and 
(3) $5 per coin for the half-dollar coin. 
(b) DISTRIBUTION.—Subject to section 5134(f) of 
title 31, United States Code, all surcharges which are re-
ceived by the Secretary from the sale of coins issued under 
this Act shall be promptly paid by the Secretary to the 
Breast Cancer Research Foundation, New York, New 
York, for the purpose of furthering breast cancer research 
funded by the Foundation. 
(c) AUDITS.—The surcharge recipients under sub-
section (b) shall be subject to the audit requirements of 
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section 5134(f)(2) of title 31, United States Code, with 
regard to the amounts received under that subsection. 
(d) LIMITATIONS.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), 
no surcharge may be included with respect to the issuance 
under this Act of any coin during a calendar year if, as 
of the time of such issuance, the issuance of such coin 
would result in the number of commemorative coin pro-
grams issued during such year to exceed the annual two 
commemorative coin program issuance limitation under 
section 5112(m)(1) of title 31, United States Code (as in 
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act). The Sec-
retary of the Treasury may issue guidance to carry out 
this subsection. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 15, 2015. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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