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Harriet Tubman Tribute Act of 2025
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to redesign $20 Federal reserve notes so as to include a likeness of Harriet Tubman, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill requires the Secretary of the Treasury to ensure that all $20 Federal Reserve notes printed after December 31, 2030, shall feature the likeness of Harriet Tubman on the face of the note. The Secretary may delay this implementation by up to two additional years if they determine that issuing the new notes would create an unacceptable risk of counterfeiting or adversely affect the safe and secure functioning of the economy, provided that any such delay is submitted to Congress for review. The bill amends section 16 of the Federal Reserve Act to establish this requirement.
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Sponsor (1)
- Sen. Shaheen, Jeanne [D-NH] (D-NH)
Actions (2)
- Mar 10, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. · senate
- Mar 10, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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Full text
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 10, 2025
Mrs. Shaheen introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
A BILL
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to redesign $20 Federal reserve notes so as to include a likeness of Harriet Tubman, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Harriet Tubman Tribute Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. LIKENESS OF HARRIET TUBMAN REQUIRED TO BE INCLUDED ON THE FACE OF $20 FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES.
The eighth undesignated paragraph of section 16 of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. 418) is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: “The Secretary of the Treasury shall ensure that the face of all $20 Federal reserve notes printed after December 31, 2030, shall bear the likeness of Harriet Tubman, except that the Secretary may delay such date by not more than 2 years if the Secretary submits to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives a determination, after consultation with the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Board, and the Director of the United States Secret Service, that issuing such notes after December 31, 2030, would create an unacceptable risk of counterfeiting or to the safe, secure, and speedy functioning of the United States economy.”. <all>
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