[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2657 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.2657

                       One Hundred Fourth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
   the third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six


                                 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,

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, philanthropy, 
    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.

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, morality, 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 authorized to be 
    appropriated to carry out this section.

SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS.

    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.

    (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.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.