S 1437 · 110th Congress 2007–2009, ended

Civil Rights Act of 1964 Commemorative Coin Act

Introduced May 21, 2007 Originated Senate Sponsor Debbie Stabenow D-MI

Latest action · May 21, 2007 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMay 21, 2007
Passed SenateNot reached
Passed HouseNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Civil Rights Act of 1964 Commemorative Coin Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue, during 2014, up to 350,000 one-dollar coins designed to be emblematic of the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its contribution to civil rights in America.

Requires sales to include a $10 surcharge per coin, which shall be paid to the United Negro College Fund.

Cosponsors 69

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 21, 2007 to Jul 28, 2008; 11 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-IL	Barack Obama	Original	May 21, 2007
D-CA	Barbara Boxer	Original	May 21, 2007
D-MD	Benjamin L. Cardin	Original	May 21, 2007
D-CA	Dianne Feinstein	Original	May 21, 2007
D-NV	Harry Reid	Original	May 21, 2007
D-MA	John F. Kerry	Original	May 21, 2007
I-CT	Joseph I. Lieberman	Original	May 21, 2007
D-LA	Mary L. Landrieu	Original	May 21, 2007
D-IL	Richard J. Durbin	Original	May 21, 2007
D-NJ	Robert Menendez	Original	May 21, 2007
D-OH	Sherrod Brown	Original	May 21, 2007
R-OH	George V. Voinovich		Jun 13, 2007
R-TN	Bob Corker		Jan 25, 2008
D-AR	Mark L. Pryor		Apr 4, 2008
D-MI	Carl Levin		Apr 8, 2008
D-NJ	Frank R. Lautenberg		Apr 9, 2008
D-NY	Hillary Rodham Clinton		Apr 9, 2008
D-CO	Ken Salazar		Apr 9, 2008
R-ME	Susan M. Collins		Apr 14, 2008
D-RI	Sheldon Whitehouse		Apr 16, 2008
D-AR	Blanche L. Lincoln		Apr 22, 2008
D-VT	Patrick J. Leahy		Apr 22, 2008
D-MN	Amy Klobuchar		May 12, 2008
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		May 12, 2008
D-NY	Charles E. Schumer		May 12, 2008
D-VA	Jim Webb		May 12, 2008
R-NC	Richard Burr		May 12, 2008
R-NC	Elizabeth Dole		May 13, 2008
R-TN	Lamar Alexander		May 13, 2008
D-MT	Max Baucus		May 15, 2008
R-OK	Tom Coburn		May 15, 2008
D-MO	Claire McCaskill		Jun 3, 2008
D-IN	Evan Bayh		Jun 3, 2008
D-WI	Herb Kohl		Jun 3, 2008
D-NM	Jeff Bingaman		Jun 4, 2008
D-WV	John D. Rockefeller IV		Jun 4, 2008
R-GA	Johnny Isakson		Jun 4, 2008
R-GA	Saxby Chambliss		Jun 4, 2008
R-MS	Thad Cochran		Jun 4, 2008
R-KS	Pat Roberts		Jun 5, 2008
R-MS	Roger F. Wicker		Jun 5, 2008
D-FL	Bill Nelson		Jun 10, 2008
R-LA	David Vitter		Jun 11, 2008
D-NE	Ben Nelson		Jun 18, 2008
D-ND	Byron L. Dorgan		Jun 18, 2008
D-HI	Daniel K. Akaka		Jun 18, 2008
D-HI	Daniel K. Inouye		Jun 18, 2008
D-RI	Jack Reed		Jun 18, 2008
R-OK	James M. Inhofe		Jun 18, 2008
D-MT	Jon Tester		Jun 18, 2008
D-DE	Joseph R. Biden Jr.		Jun 18, 2008
D-ND	Kent Conrad		Jun 18, 2008
R-AK	Lisa Murkowski		Jun 18, 2008
D-WA	Maria Cantwell		Jun 18, 2008
D-WA	Patty Murray		Jun 18, 2008
D-PA	Robert P. Casey Jr.		Jun 18, 2008
D-OR	Ron Wyden		Jun 18, 2008
D-WI	Russell D. Feingold		Jun 18, 2008
D-DE	Thomas R. Carper		Jun 18, 2008
D-SD	Tim Johnson		Jun 18, 2008
D-IA	Tom Harkin		Jun 18, 2008
R-ID	Larry E. Craig		Jun 23, 2008
D-MA	Edward M. Kennedy		Jul 7, 2008
D-WV	Robert C. Byrd		Jul 16, 2008
D-MD	Barbara A. Mikulski		Jul 26, 2008
R-TX	John Cornyn		Jul 26, 2008
R-ME	Olympia J. Snowe		Jul 26, 2008
R-AL	Jeff Sessions		Jul 28, 2008
R-TX	Kay Bailey Hutchison		Jul 28, 2008

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
Senate	Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee	Referred May 21, 2007

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

May 21, 2007Introduced in Senate
May 21, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6402-6403)
May 21, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Senate	Debate and remarks S6394, S6402	Barack Obama D-IL, Debbie Stabenow D-MI	May 21, 2007

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 2040	Civil Rights Act of 1964 Commemorative Coin Act	Identical bill	Dec 2, 2008

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of the semicentennial of the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Short Titles as Introduced: Civil Rights Act of 1964 Commemorative Coin Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commemorations.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

May 21, 2007Introduced in Senate

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