[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7865 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7865

To amend the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act to make 
   certain technical corrections to facilitate the lawful trade and 
                  collecting of numismatic materials.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 2, 2024

Ms. Van Duyne introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act to make 
   certain technical corrections to facilitate the lawful trade and 
                  collecting of numismatic materials.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS TO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL PROPERTY IMPLEMENTATION 
              ACT.

    (a) Definitions.--Section 302 of the Convention on Cultural 
Property Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 2601) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (8), (9), (10), and (11) as 
        paragraphs (9), (10), (11), and (12), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
            ``(8) The term `numismatic material' includes coins, 
        tokens, paper money, medals and related objects.''.
    (b) Import Restrictions.--Section 307 of the Convention on Cultural 
Property Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 2606) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``; or'' at the 
                end and inserting a comma;
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(B), by adding ``or''at the 
                end; and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (2)(B) (as 
                amended) the following:
            ``(3) in the case of such material that is numismatic 
        material, satisfactory evidence that the material was acquired 
        lawfully, is of a known type, and is not known to be the direct 
        product of illicit excavations within a State Party,'';
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) for purposes of subsection (b)(3), one or more 
        declarations under oath by the importer or the person for whose 
        account the material is imported, stating that, to the best of 
        his knowledge, the numismatic material--
                    ``(A) was acquired lawfully in one or more States 
                Party;
                    ``(B) was lawfully exported from a State Party in 
                which the numismatic material was acquired;
                    ``(C) is of a type known to exist in multiple 
                examples which has been published in a reference work 
                on numismatics; and
                    ``(D) is not known to be the direct product of 
                illicit excavations within another State Party after 
                the effective date for import restrictions on 
                numismatic material granted to that State Party.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) No Other Documentation Required.--The customs officer 
reviewing the satisfactory evidence shall not require any documentation 
or statements additional to that which is set forth in subsection (c) 
unless the customs officer has probable cause based on documentary 
evidence to believe that the satisfactory evidence is false or 
fraudulent.''.
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