S 844
102th Congress
Senate
Finance and Financial Sector
Anniversaries
Coins and coinage
Money
United States One Dollar Coin Act of 1991
Introduced: April 17, 1991
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 17, 1991
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking.
Apr 17, 1991
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
United States One-Dollar Coin Act of 1991 - Amends Federal currency law to prescribe the color and features (including features to aid the visually handicapped) of one-dollar coins. Mandates that the obverse side of the one-dollar coin have a design recognizing the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus.
Requires such coins to be placed in circulation within 18 months of enactment of this Act.
Mandates that the seigniorage of the new one-dollar coins be used to offset the reverse seigniorage resulting from the destruction of Susan B. Anthony dollar coins in Government storage.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1