[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 103 (Wednesday, June 20, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S4293]
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                    AMERICAN INNOVATION $1 COIN ACT

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs be discharged from 
further consideration of H.R. 770 and the Senate proceed to its 
immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The assistant bill clerk read as follows:

       A bill (H.R. 770) to require the Secretary of the Treasury 
     to mint coins in recognition of American innovation and 
     significant innovation and pioneering efforts of individuals 
     or groups from each of the 50 States, the District of 
     Columbia, and the United States territories, to promote the 
     importance of innovation in the United States, the District 
     of Columbia, and the United States territories, and for other 
     purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Murphy 
amendment at the desk be considered and agreed to, and the bill, as 
amended, be considered read a third time.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The amendment (No. 3041) was agreed to, as follows:

                     (Purpose: To improve the bill)

       Beginning on page 6, strike line 8 and all that follows 
     through page 8, line 5, and insert the following:
       ``(A) Order of issuance.--
       ``(i) In general.--The coins issued under this subsection 
     commemorating either an innovation, an individual innovator, 
     or a group of innovators, from each State, the District of 
     Columbia, or a territory shall be issued in the following 
     order:

       ``(I) State.--With respect to each State, the coins shall 
     be issued in the order in which the States ratified the 
     Constitution of the United States or were admitted into the 
     Union, as the case may be.
       ``(II) District of columbia and territories.--After all 
     coins are issued under subclause (I), the coins shall be 
     issued for the District of Columbia and the territories in 
     the following order: the District of Columbia, the 
     Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United 
     States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern 
     Mariana Islands.

       ``(ii) Application in event of the admission of additional 
     states.--Notwithstanding clause (i), if any additional State 
     is admitted into the Union before the end of the 14-year 
     period referred to in paragraph (1), the Secretary of the 
     Treasury may issue a $1 coin with respect to the additional 
     State in accordance with clause (i)(I).
       ``(iii) Application in the event of independence or adding 
     of a territory.--Notwithstanding clause (i)--

       ``(I) if any territory becomes independent or otherwise 
     ceases to be a territory of the United States before $1 coins 
     are minted pursuant to this subsection, the subsection shall 
     cease to apply with respect to such territory; and
       ``(II) if any new territory is added to the United States, 
     $1 coins shall be issued for such territories in the order in 
     which the new the territories are added, beginning after the 
     $1 coin is issued for the Commonwealth of the Northern 
     Mariana Islands.

       ``(B) Issuance of coins commemorating four innovations or 
     innovators during each of 14 years.--
       ``(i) In general.--Four $1 coin designs as described in 
     this subsection shall be issued during each year of the 
     period referred to in paragraph (1) until 1 coin featuring 1 
     innovation, an individual innovator, or a group of 
     innovators, from each of the States, the District of 
     Columbia, and territories has been issued.
       ``(ii) Number of coins of each design.--The Secretary shall 
     prescribe, on the basis of such factors as the Secretary 
     determines to be appropriate, the number of $1 coins that 
     shall be issued with each of the designs selected for each 
     year of the period referred to in paragraph (1).
  The amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a 
third time.
  The bill was read the third time.
  Mr. McCONNELL. I know of no further debate on the bill.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate.
  Hearing none, the bill having been read the third time, the question 
is, Shall the bill pass?
  The bill (H.R. 770), as amended, was passed.

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