[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 549 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 549

    To provide for the minting and circulation of one-dollar coins.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               March 10 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

 Mr. Domenici (for himself, Mr. Harkin, and Mr. DeConcini) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                 on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for the minting and circulation of one-dollar coins.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``United States One-Dollar Coin Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. ONE-DOLLAR COINS.

    (a) Color and Content.--Section 5112(b) of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The dollar,'' in the first sentence and 
        inserting in lieu thereof ``The''; and
            (2) by inserting after the fourth sentence the following: 
        ``The dollar coin authorized under subsection (a)(1) shall be 
        golden in color, shall have an unreeded edge, shall have 
        tactile features on the surface that aid the visually 
        handicapped to differentiate the dollar coin from other 
        circulating coins, shall be minted and fabricated in the United 
        States, and shall have similar metallic and anti-counterfeiting 
        properties as existing United States clad coinage.''.
    (b) Design.--Section 5112(d)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by striking the sixth sentence and inserting in lieu thereof 
the following: ``The obverse side of the dollar shall have a design 
which shall be selected by the Secretary after consultation with the 
Commission of Fine Arts.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--Not later than 18 months after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall place into 
circulation one-dollar coins authorized by section 5112(a)(1) of title 
31, United States Code, in accordance with the amendments made by 
subsections (a) and (b).

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