119-hr595

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 595 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 595

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

 January 21, 2025

Ms. Van Duyne (for herself, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. Amodei of 
Nevada, Mr. Owens, and Ms. Jacobs) 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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