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<dc:title>119 S284 IS: Congressional Award Program Reauthorization Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-01-28</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code><congress>119th CONGRESS</congress><session>1st Session</session><legis-num>S. 284</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20250128">January 28, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="S410">Ms. Lummis</sponsor> introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSGA00">Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title>To reauthorize the Congressional Award Act.</official-title></form><legis-body style="OLC" display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="section-one" id="S1"><enum>1.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Congressional Award Program Reauthorization Act</short-title></quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="idfab0ba1c11de48429c98ff22aa45fb65"><enum>2.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Termination</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id300F67401EDF4B2CAA7DFF9D5ED1BEF6"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 108 of the Congressional Award Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/2/808">2 U.S.C. 808</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>October 1, 2023</quote> and inserting <quote>October 1, 2028</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id133FB6A380F246B88350A848CCE18246"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Retroactive effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted on October 1, 2023. </text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id97d76a7ebffd458fbb3629defc4f6c52"><enum>3.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Other amendments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 102 of the Congressional Award Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/2/802">2 U.S.C. 802</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id135959ce441142dcbb6b7a6483bcaf25"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (a), by striking <quote>Each medal shall consist of gold-plate over bronze, rhodium over bronze, or bronze and shall be struck in accordance with subsection (f).</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id90685e7fd6b645959bf3efd5898214f0"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (f)(1), in the second sentence, by striking <quote>Subject to subsection (a), the</quote> and inserting <quote>The</quote>.</text></paragraph></section></legis-body></bill> 

