HR 5255
103th Congress
House
Finance and Financial Sector
Anniversaries
Arts, Culture, Religion
Associations, institutions, etc.
Coins and coinage
Commemorations
District of Columbia
Florida
Historic sites
History
Intellectual property
Inventions
Inventors
Michigan
Money
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New Jersey
Ohio
Science, Technology, Communications
Silver
Thomas Alva Edison Sesquicentennial Commemorative Coin Act
Introduced: October 7, 1994
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Nov 8, 1994
Referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Credit and Insurance.
Oct 7, 1994
Referred to the House Committee on Banking, Finance + Urban Affrs.
Oct 7, 1994
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Thomas Alva Edison Sesquicentennial Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the inventions made by Thomas A. Edison in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of his birth.
Instructs the Secretary to conduct an open design competition for the design of the obverse and reverse of the coins.
Terminates the authority to mint such coins after December 31, 1997. Mandates that certain surcharges received from coin sales be distributed to specified entities.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Consumer Credit and Insurance.
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1