Common Cents Act
Official title: A bill to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to stop minting the penny, to require cash transactions to be rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cents, and for other purposes.
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1 agreed to 1 pending / other
| Amendment | Sponsor | Status |
|---|---|---|
| SAMDT 6,766 | Lummis, Cynthia M. | Agreed to |
| SAMDT 6,749 | Lummis, Cynthia M. | Pending |
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Common Cents Act
This bill ends the production of the penny for general circulation, requires rounding to an amount divisible by five for the payment or transfer of cash, and allows the nickel to be composed of different material.
The Department of the Treasury must stop producing the penny, except to meet collector needs. The penny shall continue to be legal tender.
Any person selling goods or services in a cash transaction, entering into other transfers of cash, or paying cash wages to an employee must round the payment up or down in accordance with the bill.
The bill also allows Treasury to discontinue the minting for circulation of any coin if Treasury follows procedures as outlined by the bill, including providing notice and a briefing to Congress.
The Federal Reserve Board must periodically report on a strategic plan for the acceptance of penny orders and deposits at commercial coin terminals that provide services under agreements with Federal Reserve banks.
Finally, the bill allows for a different material composition of the nickel. In addition to being made from an alloy of copper and nickel, the nickel may also be clad with an inner core of zinc and an outer layer of nickel.
- Engrossed in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- AMERICAN BEVERAGE LICENSEES
- MCDONALD'S CORPORATION
- NATIONAL AUTOMATIC MERCHANDISING ASSOCIATION
- FOOD MARKETPLACE INC.
- THE HOME DEPOT
- THE KROGER CO.
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)
- White House Office
- Treasury, Dept of
- U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
- Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1525: Common Cents Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1525/
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