United StatesCongress would honor Buffalo Soldier regiments with one gold medal
The Buffalo Soldier regiments would receive a shared Congressional Gold Medal, which would then go to a Smithsonian museum for display and research.
What it does
Congress would award one gold medal honoring the Buffalo Soldier regiments. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture would receive it for display and research.
Treasury could sell bronze copies at prices covering their costs. The Mint’s Public Enterprise Fund could pay for the medals and would receive bronze sale proceeds.
Argument forDisplaying the medal and making it available for research could help museum visitors and researchers learn about Buffalo Soldiers’ service.
Argument againstMaking the gold medal could use Mint funds that bronze medal sales might not fully replace.
More detail
Congressional leaders would arrange the award, and the Treasury Secretary would design and make one gold medal. The single medal would collectively honor the Buffalo Soldier regiments authorized by Congress in 1866. Congress would encourage the Smithsonian to lend the medal for other displays, especially at Buffalo Soldier locations and events, but would not require it. The museum would receive the medal after the award.
The Treasury Secretary could make and sell bronze copies and use the Mint’s Public Enterprise Fund to pay medal costs. The funding authority would cover medals made under this proposal. Bronze copies would have to sell at prices that cover their production costs. Money from bronze sales would go back into the same Mint fund.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2025
- Feb 18Introduced in HouseLatest
- Feb 18Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.Introduced
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