President Jimmy Carter Congressional Gold Medal Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1369 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1369

 To award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to former President
       Jimmy Carter in recognition of his service to the Nation.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 2025

  Mr. Bishop (for himself, Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia, Mr. Norcross,
Mrs. McBath, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Mr. Carter of Georgia, Mr. Jack,
Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Doggett, Ms. Norton, Ms. Wilson of Florida,
  Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Khanna, and Mr. Cleaver) introduced the
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial
                                Services

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                                 A BILL

 To award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to former President
       Jimmy Carter in recognition of his service to the Nation.

    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 ``President Jimmy Carter Congressional
Gold Medal Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) President Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of
        the United States from 1977 to 1981.
            (2) President Jimmy Carter, whose full name is James Earl
        Carter, Jr., was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, a
        small farming town.
            (3) President Carter graduated from the United States Naval
        Academy in Annapolis, Maryland in 1946 and actively served as a
        submarine officer for 7 years. He served in the Navy Reserve
        for another 8 years, separating from the Navy with the rank of
        Lieutenant in 1961.
            (4) President Carter married his wife and life partner of
        77 years, Rosalynn Smith, on July 7th, 1946, in Plains,
        Georgia.
            (5) President Carter entered state politics in 1962 and was
        elected to the Georgia State Senate from the 14th District in
        1963. He was sworn in as the 76th governor of Georgia in 1971.
        During his tenure, he emphasized government efficiency and
        removing racial discrimination.
            (6) Guided by his moral values and deep religious faith,
        Jimmy Carter's presidency was characterized by a commitment to
        championing civil and human rights around the world. His
        foreign policy accomplishments include the Panama Canal
        treaties, the Camp David Accords, the normalization and treaty
        of peace between Egypt and Israel following the Fourth Arab-
        Israeli War, the SALT II nuclear limitation treaty with the
        Soviet Union, and the establishment of United States diplomatic
        relations with the People's Republic of China.
            (7) President Jimmy Carter's domestic legacy includes the
        Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3101
        et seq.), one of the most significant pieces of environmental
        legislation ever approved by Congress; the Nation's first
        national energy policy; and the creation of the Departments of
        Education and Energy.
            (8) After his presidency, he founded the Carter Center
        along with his wife Rosalynn, which is dedicated to conflict
        resolution, supervising democratic elections abroad, and
        combating neglected tropical diseases.
            (9) Through their work with the Carter Center, Jimmy and
        Rosalynn Carter are credited with the near eradication of the
        painful parasitic infection known as Guinea worm disease,
        reducing cases from an estimated total of 3,500,000 in 1986 to
        just 14 in 2023.
            (10) Through a partnership with Habitat for Humanity known
        as the Carter Work Project, Jimmy and his wife Rosalynn led and
        worked alongside over 100,000 volunteers across 14 countries to
        build, improve, and repair over 4,400 homes.
            (11) In 2002, Jimmy Carter became the third American
        President to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his ``decades of
        untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international
        conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to
        promote economic and social development''.
            (12) President Carter exemplifies American voluntarism
        through his countless service activities in his home State of
        Georgia, throughout the United States, and across the world.

SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL.

    (a) Presentation Authorized.--The Speaker of the House of
Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make
appropriate arrangements for the posthumous presentation, on behalf of
Congress, of a single gold medal of appropriate design to former
President Jimmy Carter in recognition of his service to the Nation.
    (b) Design and Striking.--For purposes of the presentation referred
to in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury (referred to in
this Act as the ``Secretary'') shall strike a gold medal with suitable
emblems, devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the Secretary.
The design shall bear an image of, and inscription of the name of Jimmy
Carter.
    (c) Disposition of Medal.--Following the award of the medal under
subsection (a), the gold medal shall be given to the Carter Center in
Atlanta, Georgia.

SEC. 4. DUPLICATE MEDALS.

    The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold
medal struck under section 3, at a price sufficient to cover the costs
thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and
overhead expenses.

SEC. 5. STATUS OF MEDALS.

    (a) National Medal.--Medals struck pursuant to this Act are
national medals for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States
Code.
    (b) Numismatic Items.--For purposes of sections 5134 and 5136 of
title 31, United States Code, all medals struck under this Act shall be
considered to be numismatic items.

SEC. 6. AUTHORITY TO USE FUND AMOUNTS; PROCEEDS OF SALE.

    (a) Authority To Use Fund Amounts.--There is authorized to be
charged against the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund such
amounts as may be necessary to pay for the costs of the medals struck
under this Act.
    (b) Proceeds of Sale.--Amounts received from the sale of duplicate
bronze medals authorized under section 4 shall be deposited into the
United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund.
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