[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2722 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.2722

                     One Hundred Fourteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
           the fourth day of January, two thousand and sixteen


                                 An Act


 
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition of 
                    the fight against breast cancer.

    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 ``Breast Cancer Awareness 
Commemorative Coin Act''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
    The Congress finds the following:
        (1) Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American 
    women, except for skin cancers. Today, about 1 in 8, or 12 percent 
    of, women in the United States will develop invasive breast cancer 
    during their lifetime. This is an increase from 1 in 11, or 9 
    percent of, women in 1975.
        (2) Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death 
    in women. The chance of dying from breast cancer is about 1 in 36. 
    Thanks to earlier detection, increased awareness, and improved 
    treatment, death rates from breast cancer have decreased since 
    about 1989.
        (3) There is a strong interest among the American public to do 
    more to tackle this disease. The National Cancer Institute 
    estimates $16.5 billion is spent in the United States each year on 
    breast cancer treatment. Assuming that incidence and survival rates 
    follow recent trends, it is estimated that $17.2 billion will be 
    spent on breast cancer care in the United States in 2014.
        (4) Finding a cure for breast cancer is a goal of the United 
    States Government.
        (5) The National Institutes of Health dedicated an estimated 
    $674 million for breast cancer research in Fiscal Year 2014. In 
    Fiscal Year 2014, the Department of Defense's Breast Cancer 
    Research Program received $120 million.
        (6) While the National Institutes of Health and the Department 
    of Defense program on Breast Cancer research remain the largest 
    funders of breast cancer research in the United States, in 2013, 
    the National Cancer Institute funding was reduced by nearly $66 
    million since 2011. The funding level for the Department of Defense 
    Breast Cancer Research Program has remained consistent since 2012, 
    however this amount represents a 20-percent decrease from 2011 
    funding levels.
        (7) Additional private sector support for breast cancer 
    research will help us find cures for breast cancer even faster.
        (8) It is estimated that in the United States 231,840 women 
    will be diagnosed with and 40,290 women will die of cancer of the 
    breast in 2015. This means that every 13 minutes a woman dies of 
    breast cancer in the United States.
        (9) However, due to disease type and lack of adequate care, 
    African-American women have the highest death rates of all racial 
    and ethnic groups overall and are at least 44 percent more likely 
    to die of breast cancer as compared to other racial and ethnic 
    groups.
        (10) Breast cancer used to be considered a disease of aging but 
    recent trends show that more aggressive forms of the disease have 
    been increasingly diagnosed in younger women.
        (11) Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer 
    among nearly every racial and ethnic group, including African-
    American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian/Pacific Islander, 
    and Hispanic/Latina women.
        (12) Clinical advances, resulting from research, have led to 
    increased survival from breast cancer. Since 1990, death rates from 
    breast cancer have dropped over 34 percent.
        (13) Among men in the United States it is estimated that there 
    will be 2,350 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 440 breast 
    cancer deaths in 2015.
        (14) At this time there are more than 3.1 million breast cancer 
    survivors in the United States.
        (15) It is estimated that breast cancer costs $12.5 billion in 
    lost productivity. Such productivity losses will increase with 
    projected growth rate and aging of the U.S. population if cancer 
    mortality rates stay constant in the future.
        (16) There is a better chance of survival and there are more 
    treatment options with early stage detection through mammograms and 
    clinical breast exams.
        (17) Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women 
    worldwide, with an estimated 1.7 million new cases of breast cancer 
    among women worldwide in 2012.
        (18) Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) is considered one 
    of the most efficient cancer research charities.
        (19) Of every dollar donated to BCRF, $0.91 goes to research 
    and awareness programs--88 cents towards research and 3 cents 
    towards awareness.
        (20) Founded in 1993, the BCRF has raised more than $500 
    million to fuel discoveries in tumor biology, genetics, prevention, 
    treatment, survivorship, and metastasis, making BCRF one of the 
    largest private funders of breast cancer research in the world. For 
    2014-2015, BCRF committed $58.6 million in research, including 
    $11.6 million to the international Evelyn H. Lauder Founder's Fund 
    focused on metastasis, to support the work of more than 220 
    researchers at leading medical institutions across 6 continents (25 
    states and 14 countries).
SEC. 3. COIN SPECIFICATIONS.
    (a) Denominations.--The Secretary of the Treasury (hereafter in 
this Act referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall mint and issue the 
following coins:
        (1) $5 gold coins.--Not more than 50,000 $5 gold coins, which 
    shall--
            (A) have a diameter of 0.850 inches; and
            (B) be made of ``pink gold'' which contains not less than 
        75 percent gold.
        (2) $1 silver coins.--Not more than 400,000 $1 coins, which 
    shall--
            (A) weigh 26.73 grams;
            (B) have a diameter of 1.500 inches; and
            (C) contain not less than 90 percent silver.
        (3) Half-dollar clad coins.--Not more than 750,000 half-dollar 
    coins which shall--
            (A) weigh 11.34 grams;
            (B) have a diameter of 1.205 inches; and
            (C) be minted to the specifications for half-dollar coins 
        contained in section 5112(b) of title 31, United States Code.
    (b) Legal Tender.--The coins minted under this Act shall be legal 
tender, as provided in section 5103 of title 31, United States Code.
    (c) Numismatic Items.--For purposes of sections 5134 and 5136 of 
title 31, United States Code, all coins minted under this Act shall be 
considered to be numismatic items.
SEC. 4. DESIGN OF COINS.
    (a) Design Requirements.--
        (1) In general.--The design of the coins minted under this Act 
    shall be emblematic of the fight against breast cancer.
        (2) Designation and inscriptions.--On each coin minted under 
    this Act there shall be--
            (A) a designation of the face value of the coin;
            (B) an inscription of the year ``2018''; and
            (C) inscriptions of the words ``Liberty'', ``In God We 
        Trust'', ``United States of America'', and ``E Pluribus Unum''.
    (b) Selection.--The design for the coins minted under this Act 
shall be selected by the Secretary based on the winning design from a 
juried, compensated design competition described under subsection (c).
    (c) Design Competition.--
        (1) In general.--The Secretary shall hold a competition and 
    provide compensation for its winner to design the obverse and 
    reverse of the coins minted under this Act. The competition shall 
    be judged by an expert jury chaired by the Secretary and consisting 
    of three members from the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee who 
    shall be elected by such Committee and three members from the 
    Commission of Fine Arts who shall be elected by such Commission.
        (2) Proposals.--As part of the competition described in this 
    subsection, the Secretary may accept proposals from artists, 
    engravers of the United States Mint, and members of the general 
    public, and any designs submitted for the design review process 
    described herein shall be anonymized until a final selection is 
    made.
        (3) Accompanying designs; preference for physical designs.--The 
    Secretary shall encourage three-dimensional designs to be submitted 
    as part of the proposals, and the jury shall give a preference for 
    proposals that are accompanied by a three-dimensional physical 
    design instead of, or in addition to, an electronic design.
        (4) Compensation.--The Secretary shall determine compensation 
    for the winning design under this subsection, which shall be not 
    less than $5,000. The Secretary shall take into account this 
    compensation amount when determining the sale price described in 
    section 6(a).
SEC. 5. ISSUANCE OF COINS.
    (a) Quality of Coins.--Coins minted under this Act shall be issued 
in uncirculated and proof qualities.
    (b) Period for Issuance.--The Secretary may issue coins minted 
under this Act only during the 1-year period beginning on January 1, 
2018.
SEC. 6. SALE OF COINS.
    (a) Sale Price.--The coins issued under this Act shall be sold by 
the Secretary at a price equal to the sum of--
        (1) the face value of the coins;
        (2) the surcharge provided in section 7(a) with respect to the 
    coins; and
        (3) the cost of designing and issuing the coins (including 
    labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, overhead expenses, 
    marketing, and shipping).
    (b) Bulk Sales.--The Secretary shall make bulk sales of the coins 
issued under this Act at a reasonable discount.
    (c) Prepaid Orders.--
        (1) In general.--The Secretary shall accept prepaid orders for 
    the coins minted under this Act before the issuance of such coins.
        (2) Discount.--Sale prices with respect to prepaid orders under 
    paragraph (1) shall be at a reasonable discount.
SEC. 7. SURCHARGES.
    (a) In General.--All sales of coins issued under this Act shall 
include a surcharge of--
        (1) $35 per coin for the $5 coin;
        (2) $10 per coin for the $1 coin; and
        (3) $5 per coin for the half-dollar coin.
    (b) Distribution.--Subject to section 5134(f) of title 31, United 
States Code, all surcharges which are received by the Secretary from 
the sale of coins issued under this Act shall be promptly paid by the 
Secretary to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, New York, New York, 
for the purpose of furthering breast cancer research funded by the 
Foundation.
    (c) Audits.--The surcharge recipients under subsection (b) shall be 
subject to the audit requirements of section 5134(f)(2) of title 31, 
United States Code, with regard to the amounts received under that 
subsection.
    (d) Limitations.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), no surcharge may 
be included with respect to the issuance under this Act of any coin 
during a calendar year if, as of the time of such issuance, the 
issuance of such coin would result in the number of commemorative coin 
programs issued during such year to exceed the annual two commemorative 
coin program issuance limitation under section 5112(m)(1) of title 31, 
United States Code (as in effect on the date of the enactment of this 
Act). The Secretary of the Treasury may issue guidance to carry out 
this subsection.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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