HR 595

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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

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.”. <all>