[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 872 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 872

   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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 26, 2019

 Mrs. Shaheen introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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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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