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105th Congress > House > Vote 1037

Date: 1998-09-09

Result: 397-1 (Passed)

Clerk session vote number: 417

Vote Subject Matter: Government Management / Budget Special Interest

Bill number: HR678

Question: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

Description: Thomas Edison Sesquicentennial Commemorative Coin Act

Bill summary: Thomas Alva Edison Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the light bulb and the many inventions made by Thomas A. Edison throughout his prolific life. Mandates that: (1) the obverse side of the coins bear the likeness of Thomas A. Edison; and (2) coin design be selected by the Secretary and reviewed by the Citizens Commemorative Coin Advisory Committee. Terminates the authority to mint such coins after December 31, 2004. (...show more) Requires that certain surcharges received from coin sales be distributed to specified entities.

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Bill titles: To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the birth of Thomas Alva Edison, to redesign the half dollar circulating coin for 1997 to commemorate Thomas Edison, and for other purposes.

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