[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2610 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2610

 To require the Secretary of the Treasury to redesign Federal reserve 
  notes so as to include a likeness of Harriet Tubman, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 2, 2015

 Mr. Katko (for himself, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Hurd of Texas, 
 Miss Rice of New York, Mr. Buck, Ms. Graham, Mrs. Brooks of Indiana, 
 and Ms. McSally) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of the Treasury to redesign Federal reserve 
  notes so as to include a likeness of Harriet Tubman, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Harriet Tubman Tribute Act of 
2015''.

SEC. 2. LIKENESS OF HARRIET TUBMAN REQUIRED TO BE INCLUDED ON THE FACE 
              OF FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES.

    The 8th undesignated paragraph of section 16 of the Federal Reserve 
Act (12 U.S.C. 418) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ``The Secretary of the Treasury shall designate one of the 
foregoing denominations and shall ensure that the face of all Federal 
reserve notes of that denomination printed after December 31, 2017, 
shall bear the likeness of Harriet Tubman.''.
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