[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3673 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3673

  To amend the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act to extend the 
program by an additional year for the purpose of including the District 
 of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United States 
            Virgin Islands within the scope of the program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 1998

     Ms. Norton (for herself, Mr. Castle, Ms. Christian-Green, Mr. 
  Faleomavaega, Mr. Underwood, and Mr. Romero-Barcelo) introduced the 
  following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Banking and 
                           Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act to extend the 
program by an additional year for the purpose of including the District 
 of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United States 
            Virgin Islands within the scope of the program.

    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 ``50 States Commemorative Coin Program 
Amendments Act of 1998''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act 
        established a 10-year program for commemorating each of the 50 
        States through designs on circulating quarter dollars issued 
        during the effective period of the program.
            (2) The District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto 
        Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands are part of the 
        United States and it is important that the youth of the United 
        States, a large number of whom are expected to collect complete 
        sets of the quarter dollars issued during the program, learn 
        about their national history, geography, and heritage through 
        the program.

SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO COIN PROGRAM.

    Paragraph (7) of section 5112(l) of title 31, United States Code, 
(as enacted by section 3 of the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program 
Act) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(7) Commemoration of 5 territories in 11th year.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Notwithstanding the 4th sentence 
                of subsection (d)(1) and subsection (d)(2), quarter 
                dollar coins issued during the year following the end 
                of the 10-year period referred to in paragraph (1) 
                shall have designs on the reverse side selected in 
                accordance with this subsection which are emblematic of 
                the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto 
                Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.
                    ``(B) Applicability of other paragraphs.--Subject 
                to subparagraph (C), paragraphs (2), (3)(B), (4), (5), 
                and (6) shall apply to quarter dollars issued in 
                accordance with this paragraph in the same manner such 
                paragraphs apply to quarter dollars issued in 
                accordance with paragraph (1).
                    ``(C) Application of terms.--For purposes of 
                subparagraph (B) of this paragraph--
                            ``(i) paragraph (4)(A) shall be applied by 
                        substituting the term `highest-level elected 
                        executive officer of the district or territory' 
                        for `Governor of the State'; and
                            ``(ii) subparagraphs (A) and (C) of 
                        paragraph (4) shall be applied by substituting 
                        the term `district or territory' for `State'.
                    ``(D) Application in event of admission as a 
                state.--If the District of Columbia, American Samoa, 
                Guam, Puerto Rico, or the United States Virgin Islands 
                becomes a State before the end of the 10-year period 
                referred to in paragraph (1), subparagraph (B) shall 
                apply and subparagraph (C) shall not apply with respect 
                to such State.''.
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