[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1083 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1083

   To require the Secretary of the Treasury to redesign $20 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

                            February 7, 2019

   Mr. Katko (for himself, Mr. Cummings, Ms. Speier, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
Higgins of New York, Ms. Stefanik, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Raskin, Mr. 
     Grijalva, Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire, and Mr. Hurd of Texas) 
 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 $20 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 
2019''.

SEC. 2. LIKENESS OF HARRIET TUBMAN REQUIRED TO BE INCLUDED ON THE FACE 
              OF $20 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 ensure that the face of 
all $20 Federal reserve notes printed after December 31, 2020, shall 
bear the likeness of Harriet Tubman.''.
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