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To amend the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act to make certain technical corrections to facilitate the lawful trade and collecting of numismatic materials.
To amend the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act to make certain technical corrections to facilitate the lawful trade and collecting of numismatic materials.
Summary
This bill amends the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act to establish import rules specifically for numismatic materials—coins, tokens, paper money, medals, and related objects. It requires that imported numismatic materials be accompanied by satisfactory evidence they were acquired lawfully, are of a known type, and are not known to be from illicit excavations. Importers may provide declarations under oath attesting to the lawful acquisition and export of the materials. The bill limits what additional documentation U.S. Customs can require, stating that officers may only demand additional evidence if they have probable cause to believe the provided evidence is false or fraudulent.
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Sponsor (1)
15 cosponsors
- Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2] (R-NV)
- Rep. Bean, Aaron [R-FL-4] (R-FL)
- Rep. Carter, Troy A. [D-LA-2] (D-LA)
- Rep. Harris, Andy [R-MD-1] (R-MD)
- Rep. Jacobs, Sara [D-CA-51] (D-CA)
- Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large] (R-SD)
- Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17] (R-NY)
- Rep. Lucas, Frank D. [R-OK-3] (R-OK)
- Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11] (R-NY)
- Rep. Moore, Blake D. [R-UT-1] (R-UT)
- Rep. Owens, Burgess [R-UT-4] (R-UT)
- Rep. Schneider, Bradley Scott [D-IL-10] (D-IL)
- Rep. Smucker, Lloyd [R-PA-11] (R-PA)
- Rep. Swalwell, Eric [D-CA-14] (D-CA)
- Rep. Williams, Roger [R-TX-25] (R-TX)
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Beth Van Duyne’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $51,100
- INSPERITY $14,800
- AMERICAN AIRLINES $14,473
- BANK OF THE WEST $14,200
- CHARTER BROKERAGE LLC $13,862
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Actions (2)
- Jan 21, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. · house
- Jan 21, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
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>
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