119-hr1976

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1976 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 1976

 To require $20 notes to include a portrait of Harriet Tubman, and for 
 other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 March 10, 2025

Mrs. Beatty (for herself, Ms. Adams, Ms. Brown, Mr. Carson, Mr. Carter 
 of Louisiana, Mr. Casten, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Ms. Clarke of New 
York, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Espaillat, 
 Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Foushee, Mr. Green of Texas, Mr. 
Grijalva, Mrs. Hayes, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, 
 Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Lynch, Mrs. McIver, Mr. 
 Meeks, Mr. Mfume, Mr. Neguse, Ms. Norton, Ms. Omar, Ms. Sewell, Mr. 
 Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Torres of New York, Ms. 
Underwood, Mr. Veasey, Ms. Velazquez, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Williams 
 of Georgia, and Ms. Wilson of Florida) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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 A BILL

 To require $20 notes to include a portrait 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 ``Woman on the Twenty Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

 Congress finds the following:

    (1) In 1875, Congress adopted the dollar as the monetary 
 unit of the United States.

    (2) In 1877, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the 
 Department of the Treasury began printing all United States 
 paper money.

    (3) The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created the Federal 
 Reserve as the Nation's central bank and provided for a 
 national banking system. The Board of Governors of the Federal 
 Reserve System issued new paper money called Federal Reserve 
 notes.

    (4) The Secretary of the Treasury has historically selected 
 the designs shown on Federal Reserve notes with the advice of 
 the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

    (5) United States Federal Reserve notes now in production 
 bear the following portraits:
        (A) President George Washington on the $1 bill.
        (B) President Thomas Jefferson on the $2 bill.
            (C) President Abraham Lincoln on the $5 bill.
            (D) Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill.
        (E) President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
        (F) President Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 bill.
        (G) Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill.

    (6) There are also several denominations of Federal Reserve 
 notes that are no longer produced. These include the $500 bill 
 with the portrait of President William McKinley, the $1,000 
 bill with a portrait of President Grover Cleveland, the $5,000 
 bill with a portrait of President James Madison, the $10,000 
 bill with a portrait of Salmon P. Chase, and the $100,000 bill 
 with a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson.

    (7) Since the first general circulation of paper money, no 
 woman has ever held the honor of being featured on paper money.

    (8) In June 2015, then-Treasury Secretary Jack Lew 
 announced that the portrait of a woman would be featured on the 
 new $10 bill.

    (9) After a lengthy period of public engagement between the 
 public and the Department of the Treasury, on April 20, 2016, 
 then-Treasury Secretary Lew announced that ``for the first time 
 in more than a century, the front of our currency will feature 
 the portrait of a woman--Harriet Tubman on the $20 note''. 
 Additionally, the Secretary announced the reverse of the new 
 $10 note would feature an image of the historic march for 
 suffrage that ended on the steps of the United States 
 Department of Treasury, featuring the leaders of the suffrage 
 movement--Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, 
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul. Finally, the Secretary 
 also announced the reverse of the $5 note would feature an 
 image of historic figures at the Lincoln Memorial who shaped 
 our history and democracy, including Marian Anderson, Eleanor 
 Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

SEC. 3. HARRIET TUBMAN ON THE $20 NOTE.

    (a) In General.--

Section 5114

    (b) of title 31, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following: ``No $20 note of United 
States currency may be printed after December 31, 2028, which does not 
prominently feature a portrait of Harriet Tubman on the front face of 
the note.''.

    (b) Preliminary Design.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall 
release to the public the preliminary design of the $20 note 
prominently featuring a portrait of Harriet Tubman no later than 
December 31, 2026.
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