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I 106TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 1029 To amend the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act to extend the program by an additional year for the purpose of including the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands within the scope of the program. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MARCH 8, 1999 Ms. NORTON (for herself, Mr. BACHUS, Ms. WATERS, Mr. CASTLE, Mrs. CHRISTIAN-CHRISTENSEN, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. ROMERO-BARCELO´, and Mr. UNDERWOOD) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Banking and Financial Services A BILL To amend the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program Act to extend the program by an additional year for the purpose of including the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United States Vir- gin Islands within the scope of the program. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘50 States Commemo- 4 rative Coin Program Amendments Act of 1999’’. 5 2 •HR 1029 IH SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 1 The Congress finds the following: 2 (1) The 50 States Commemorative Coin Pro- 3 gram Act established a 10-year program for com- 4 memorating each of the 50 States through designs 5 on circulating quarter dollars issued during the ef- 6 fective period of the program. 7 (2) The District of Columbia, American Samoa, 8 Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin 9 Islands are part of the United States and it is im- 10 portant that the youth of the United States, a large 11 number of whom are expected to collect complete 12 sets of the quarter dollars issued during the pro- 13 gram, learn about their national history, geography, 14 and heritage through the program. 15 SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO COIN PROGRAM. 16 Paragraph (7) of section 5112(l) of title 31, United 17 States Code, (as enacted by section 3 of the 50 States 18 Commemorative Coin Program Act) is amended to read 19 as follows: 20 ‘‘(7) COMMEMORATION OF 5 TERRITORIES IN 21 11TH YEAR.— 22 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding the 23 4th sentence of subsection (d)(1) and sub- 24 section (d)(2), quarter dollar coins issued dur- 25 ing the year following the end of the 10-year 26 3 •HR 1029 IH period referred to in paragraph (1) shall have 1 designs on the reverse side selected in accord- 2 ance with this subsection which are emblematic 3 of the District of Columbia, American Samoa, 4 Guam, Puerto Rico, and the United States Vir- 5 gin Islands. 6 ‘‘(B) APPLICABILITY OF OTHER PARA- 7 GRAPHS.—Subject to subparagraph (C), para- 8 graphs (2), (3)(B), (4), (5), and (6) shall apply 9 to quarter dollars issued in accordance with this 10 paragraph in the same manner such paragraphs 11 apply to quarter dollars issued in accordance 12 with paragraph (1). 13 ‘‘(C) APPLICATION OF TERMS.—For pur- 14 poses of subparagraph (B) of this paragraph— 15 ‘‘(i) paragraph (4)(A) shall be applied 16 by substituting the term ‘highest-level 17 elected executive officer of the district or 18 territory’ for ‘Governor of the State’; and 19 ‘‘(ii) subparagraphs (A) and (C) of 20 paragraph (4) shall be applied by sub- 21 stituting the term ‘district or territory’ for 22 ‘State’. 23 ‘‘(D) APPLICATION IN EVENT OF ADMIS- 24 SION AS A STATE.—If the District of Columbia, 25 4 •HR 1029 IH American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the 1 United States Virgin Islands becomes a State 2 before the end of the 10-year period referred to 3 in paragraph (1), subparagraph (B) shall apply 4 and subparagraph (C) shall not apply with re- 5 spect to such State.’’. 6 Æ