To award a congressional gold medal to Ruth and Billy Graham.
PL 104-111 (H.R.2657), enacted 02/13/1996

110 STAT. 772 
PUBLIC LAW 104-111—FEB. 13, 1996 
Feb. 13, 1996 
(H.R. 2657] 
Public Law 104-111 
104th Congress 
An Act 
To award a congressional gold medal to Ruth and Billy Graham. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
The Congress hereby finds the following: 
(1) Ruth and Billy Graham have made outstanding and 
lasting contributions to morality, racial equality, family, philan-
thropy, and religion. 
(2) America's most respected and admired evangelical 
leader for the past half century, Billy Graham's crusades have 
reached 
100,000,000 people in person and reached over 
2,000,000,000 people worldwide on television. 
(3) Billy Graham, throughout his 76 years of life and his 
52-year marriage to Ruth Graham, has exemplified the highest 
ideals of teaching, counseling, ethics, charity, faith, and family. 
(4) Billy Graham's daily newspaper column and 14 books 
have provided spiritual counseling and personal enrichment 
to millions of people. 
(5) Ruth and Billy Graham have been the driving force 
to create the Ruth and Billy Graham Children's Health Center 
at Memorial Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, 
whose vision it is to improve the health and well-being of 
children and to become a new resource for ending the pain 
and suffering of children. 
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SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 
(a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZED.—The Speaker of the House 
of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate 
are authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, to Billy and 
Ruth Graham a gold medal of appropriate design, in recognition 
of their outstanding and enduring contributions toward faith, moral-
ity, and charity. 
(b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For purposes of the presentation 
referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions 
to be determined by the Secretary. 
(c) GIFTS AND DONATIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Treasury may 
accept, use, and disburse gifts or donations of property or 
money to carry out this section. 
(2) No APPROPRIATION AUTHORIZED.—No amount is author-
ized to be appropriated to carry out this section. 
PUBLIC LAW 104-111—FEB. 13, 1996 
110 STAT. 773 
SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
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The Secretary of the Treasury may strike and sell duplicates 
in bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to section 2 under 
such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, at a price sufficient 
to cover the cost thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of 
machinery, and overhead expenses, and the cost of the gold medal. 
SEC. 4. STATUS OF MEDALS. 
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(a) NATIONAL MEDALS.—The medals struck pursuant to this 
Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, 
United States Code. 
(b) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of section 5134 of title 
31, United States Code, all medals struck under this Act shall 
be considered to be numismatic items. 
Approved February 13, 1996. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2657: 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 142 (1996): 
Jan. 23, considered and passed House. 
Feb. 1, considered and passed Senate, amended. House concurred in Senate 
amendment.