HR 3187 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

March of Dimes Commemorative Coin Act of 2012

Introduced Oct 13, 2011 Originated House Became Public Law 112-209 Sponsor Robert J. Dold R-IL

Latest action · Dec 18, 2012 Became Public Law No: 112-209.

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.

IntroducedOct 13, 2011
Passed HouseAug 1, 2012
Passed SenateDec 10, 2012
To the PresidentDec 12, 2012
Became lawDec 18, 2012Public Law 112-209

Summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on August 1, 2012. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

March of Dimes Commemorative Coin Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue up to 500,000 $1 silver coins emblematic of the mission and programs of the March of Dimes.

Requires the design of the coins to be emblematic of the mission and programs of the March of Dimes and its record of generating Americans' support to protect our children's health.

Permits issuance of such coins only during the one-year period beginning on January 1, 2015.

Requires all surcharges received by the Secretary from the sale of such coins to be promptly paid to the March of Dimes to help finance research, education, and services aimed at improving the health of women, infants, and children.

Subjects the March of Dimes to federal audit requirements.

Instructs the Secretary to take necessary action to ensure that: (1) minting and issuing coins under this Act will not result in any net cost to the federal government; and (2) no funds, including applicable surcharges, shall be disbursed to March of Dimes to help finance research, education, and services aimed at improving the health of women, infants, and children until the total cost of designing and issuing the coins authorized by this Act is recovered by the Treasury.

Cosponsors 305

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Oct 13, 2011 to Aug 1, 2012; 19 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-NH	Charles F. Bass	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-PA	Charles W. Dent	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-WV	David B. McKinley	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-CA	Gary G. Miller	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-GA	Jack Kingston	Original	Oct 13, 2011
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-LA	Jeffrey M. Landry	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-IL	John Shimkus	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-IL	Judy Biggert	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-TX	Michael T. McCaul	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-PA	Mike Kelly	Original	Oct 13, 2011
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-OH	Patrick J. Tiberi	Original	Oct 13, 2011
D-VT	Peter Welch	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-NC	Renee L. Ellmers	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-NJ	Rodney P. Frelinghuysen	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-OH	Steven C. LaTourette	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-IL	Timothy V. Johnson	Original	Oct 13, 2011
R-IL	Aaron Schock		Oct 24, 2011
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		Oct 24, 2011
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Oct 24, 2011
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Oct 24, 2011
R-CA	Jeff Denham		Oct 24, 2011
R-NY	Michael G. Grimm		Oct 24, 2011
D-MO	Russ Carnahan		Oct 24, 2011
R-LA	Steve Scalise		Oct 24, 2011
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Oct 25, 2011
R-TN	Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann		Oct 25, 2011
R-FL	Daniel Webster		Oct 25, 2011
R-FL	David Rivera		Oct 25, 2011
R-CA	Duncan Hunter		Oct 25, 2011
D-DE	John C. Carney, Jr.		Oct 25, 2011
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins		Oct 25, 2011
R-NV	Mark E. Amodei		Oct 25, 2011
R-GA	Rob Woodall		Oct 25, 2011
R-OH	Steve Stivers		Oct 25, 2011
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Oct 25, 2011
R-IN	Todd Young		Oct 25, 2011
R-AZ	Benjamin Quayle		Oct 26, 2011
D-RI	David N. Cicilline		Oct 26, 2011
R-KS	Kevin Yoder		Oct 26, 2011
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Oct 26, 2011
R-SC	Trey Gowdy		Oct 26, 2011
D-NY	Edolphus Towns		Nov 3, 2011
D-MI	Gary C. Peters		Nov 3, 2011
D-HI	Mazie K. Hirono		Nov 3, 2011
R-FL	C. W. Bill Young		Nov 4, 2011
R-WY	Cynthia M. Lummis		Nov 15, 2011
D-NY	Paul Tonko		Nov 15, 2011
D-IN	André Carson		Nov 16, 2011
R-CA	Brian P. Bilbray		Nov 16, 2011
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		Nov 16, 2011
R-CA	Kevin McCarthy		Nov 16, 2011
R-FL	Mario Diaz-Balart		Nov 16, 2011
R-CA	Mary Bono		Nov 16, 2011
R-FL	Cliff Stearns		Dec 1, 2011
R-FL	Dennis A. Ross		Dec 12, 2011
R-AK	Don Young		Dec 12, 2011
R-AZ	Jeff Flake		Dec 12, 2011
R-NM	Stevan Pearce		Dec 12, 2011
D-CA	Jackie Speier		Dec 16, 2011
R-AR	Eric A. "Rick" Crawford		Jan 10, 2012
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Jan 10, 2012
R-NY	Christopher P. Gibson		Jan 18, 2012
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Jan 18, 2012
D-IL	Mike Quigley		Jan 23, 2012
D-AR	Mike Ross		Jan 23, 2012
R-GA	Phil Gingrey		Jan 23, 2012
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Feb 1, 2012
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Feb 1, 2012
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Feb 1, 2012
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman		Feb 1, 2012
D-TX	Gene Green		Feb 1, 2012
D-WI	Gwen Moore		Feb 1, 2012
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		Feb 1, 2012
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Feb 1, 2012
D-CA	Laura Richardson		Feb 1, 2012
R-TX	Michael C. Burgess		Feb 1, 2012
R-KY	Ed Whitfield		Feb 6, 2012
R-SD	Kristi L. Noem		Feb 6, 2012
R-WV	Shelley Moore Capito		Feb 6, 2012
R-AR	Tim Griffin		Feb 6, 2012
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Feb 7, 2012
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Feb 7, 2012
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Feb 14, 2012
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Feb 14, 2012
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth		Feb 14, 2012
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Feb 16, 2012
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Feb 16, 2012
D-WA	Jay Inslee		Feb 28, 2012
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Feb 28, 2012
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		Feb 29, 2012
R-NY	Nan A. S. Hayworth		Feb 29, 2012
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		Mar 1, 2012
R-TX	Pete Sessions		Mar 5, 2012
R-PA	Glenn Thompson		Mar 7, 2012
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn		Mar 7, 2012
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Mar 7, 2012
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Mar 7, 2012
R-FL	Ander Crenshaw		Mar 20, 2012
R-WA	David G. Reichert		Mar 20, 2012
D-IA	David Loebsack		Mar 20, 2012
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Mar 20, 2012
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark		Mar 20, 2012
D-VA	James P. Moran		Mar 20, 2012
D-MI	John D. Dingell		Mar 20, 2012
R-TX	K. Michael Conaway		Mar 20, 2012
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Mar 20, 2012
R-PA	Michael G. Fitzpatrick		Mar 20, 2012
R-MI	Thaddeus G. McCotter		Mar 20, 2012
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Mar 21, 2012
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Mar 22, 2012
D-NC	Larry Kissell		Mar 26, 2012
D-CA	Sam Farr		Mar 26, 2012
R-AR	Steve Womack		Mar 26, 2012
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Mar 26, 2012
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Mar 26, 2012
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Mar 27, 2012
R-TX	Blake Farenthold		Mar 27, 2012
D-GA	John Lewis		Mar 27, 2012
D-MA	John W. Olver		Mar 27, 2012
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Mar 28, 2012
R-NV	Joseph J. Heck		Mar 28, 2012
D-CT	Christopher Murphy		Mar 29, 2012
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Mar 29, 2012
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		Mar 29, 2012
R-FL	Bill Posey		Apr 16, 2012
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Apr 16, 2012
D-GA	David Scott		Apr 16, 2012
R-TX	Francisco "Quico" Canseco		Apr 16, 2012
R-NY	Richard L. Hanna		Apr 16, 2012
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Apr 16, 2012
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		Apr 16, 2012
R-AL	Spencer Bachus		Apr 16, 2012
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Apr 16, 2012
D-PA	Tim Holden		Apr 16, 2012
R-FL	Vern Buchanan		Apr 16, 2012
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Apr 17, 2012
R-KY	Harold Rogers		Apr 17, 2012
R-TX	John R. Carter		Apr 17, 2012
D-NY	Kathleen C. Hochul		Apr 17, 2012
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks		Apr 17, 2012
D-CA	Doris O. Matsui		Apr 19, 2012
D-HI	Colleen Hanabusa		Apr 24, 2012
D-OK	Dan Boren		Apr 24, 2012
R-CA	Daniel E. Lungren		Apr 24, 2012
D-CA	Dennis A. Cardoza		Apr 24, 2012
D-CA	Janice Hahn		Apr 24, 2012
D-CA	Joe Baca		Apr 24, 2012
D-CA	Lois Capps		Apr 24, 2012
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Apr 24, 2012
R-NY	Robert L. Turner		Apr 24, 2012
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Apr 24, 2012
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		Apr 24, 2012
R-MS	Alan Nunnelee		Apr 25, 2012
R-FL	John L. Mica		Apr 25, 2012
R-CA	Elton Gallegly		Apr 26, 2012
R-IL	Peter J. Roskam		Apr 26, 2012
D-NJ	Albio Sires		May 7, 2012
D-CA	Bob Filner		May 7, 2012
R-CA	Devin Nunes		May 7, 2012
R-CA	Edward R. Royce		May 7, 2012
R-FL	Ileana Ros-Lehtinen		May 7, 2012
R-PA	Jim Gerlach		May 7, 2012
D-CA	Judy Chu		May 7, 2012
D-MN	Keith Ellison		May 7, 2012
R-TX	Kenny Marchant		May 7, 2012
R-TX	Lamar Smith		May 7, 2012
R-NJ	Leonard Lance		May 7, 2012
R-TX	Randy Neugebauer		May 7, 2012
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		May 7, 2012
D-MA	Stephen F. Lynch		May 7, 2012
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		May 7, 2012
D-OH	Tim Ryan		May 7, 2012
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		May 9, 2012
R-CA	Howard P. "Buck" McKeon		May 9, 2012
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		May 9, 2012
R-NY	Peter T. King		May 9, 2012
R-LA	Rodney Alexander		May 9, 2012
R-MD	Roscoe G. Bartlett		May 9, 2012
D-MI	Hansen Clarke		May 10, 2012
R-FL	Jeff Miller		May 10, 2012
D-WA	Adam Smith		May 16, 2012
D-MN	Betty McCollum		May 16, 2012
D-NY	Brian Higgins		May 16, 2012
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		May 16, 2012
R-TX	Joe Barton		May 16, 2012
R-TX	Kay Granger		May 16, 2012
R-TX	Ralph M. Hall		May 16, 2012
R-IA	Steve King		May 16, 2012
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		May 16, 2012
R-PA	Bill Shuster		May 17, 2012
R-TX	Jeb Hensarling		May 17, 2012
D-IN	Joe Donnelly		May 17, 2012
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		May 30, 2012
R-NH	Frank C. Guinta		May 30, 2012
D-CA	George Miller		May 30, 2012
D-CA	Jim Costa		May 30, 2012
R-SC	Joe Wilson		May 30, 2012
D-GA	John Barrow		May 30, 2012
R-CO	Mike Coffman		May 30, 2012
D-PR	Pedro R. Pierluisi		May 30, 2012
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		May 30, 2012
R-WI	Sean P. Duffy		May 30, 2012
R-WI	Thomas E. Petri		May 30, 2012
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		May 30, 2012
R-PA	Tom Marino		May 30, 2012
R-IL	Adam Kinzinger		May 31, 2012
R-MO	Blaine Luetkemeyer		May 31, 2012
R-LA	Charles W. Boustany, Jr.		May 31, 2012
R-TN	David P. Roe		May 31, 2012
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		May 31, 2012
R-AZ	Paul A. Gosar		May 31, 2012
D-WA	Rick Larsen		May 31, 2012
R-IN	Todd Rokita		May 31, 2012
D-PA	Allyson Y. Schwartz		Jun 5, 2012
R-GA	Austin Scott		Jun 5, 2012
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Jun 5, 2012
R-MS	Gregg Harper		Jun 5, 2012
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Jun 5, 2012
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Jun 5, 2012
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		Jun 6, 2012
R-PA	Patrick Meehan		Jun 6, 2012
R-OH	Bill Johnson		Jun 7, 2012
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver		Jun 7, 2012
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson		Jun 7, 2012
D-NM	Martin Heinrich		Jun 7, 2012
D-TX	Al Green		Jun 15, 2012
R-MO	Billy Long		Jun 15, 2012
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Jun 15, 2012
D-CT	James A. Himes		Jun 15, 2012
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Jun 15, 2012
R-TX	John Abney Culberson		Jun 15, 2012
R-NC	Patrick T. McHenry		Jun 15, 2012
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Jun 15, 2012
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Jun 15, 2012
R-KY	Brett Guthrie		Jun 18, 2012
D-NC	Brad Miller		Jun 19, 2012
D-CA	Brad Sherman		Jun 19, 2012
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		Jun 19, 2012
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Jun 19, 2012
R-MD	Andy Harris		Jun 20, 2012
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Jun 20, 2012
R-WA	Jaime Herrera Beutler		Jun 20, 2012
R-OK	John Sullivan		Jun 20, 2012
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Jun 21, 2012
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		Jun 21, 2012
R-CA	Jerry Lewis		Jun 21, 2012
R-NJ	Jon Runyan		Jun 21, 2012
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Jun 21, 2012
D-MA	Niki Tsongas		Jun 21, 2012
R-MI	Candice S. Miller		Jun 26, 2012
R-OK	Frank D. Lucas		Jun 26, 2012
R-OR	Greg Walden		Jun 26, 2012
R-NC	Howard Coble		Jun 26, 2012
R-OH	Jean Schmidt		Jun 26, 2012
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		Jun 26, 2012
R-MO	Jo Ann Emerson		Jun 26, 2012
R-AL	Jo Bonner		Jun 26, 2012
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Jun 26, 2012
R-IA	Tom Latham		Jun 26, 2012
R-AZ	Trent Franks		Jun 26, 2012
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Jun 26, 2012
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Jun 27, 2012
R-MT	Denny Rehberg		Jun 27, 2012
R-IL	Joe Walsh		Jun 27, 2012
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.		Jun 27, 2012
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Jun 27, 2012
R-IL	Randy Hultgren		Jun 27, 2012
R-IL	Robert T. Schilling		Jun 27, 2012
R-MO	Sam Graves		Jun 27, 2012
R-GA	Tom Price		Jun 27, 2012
R-NY	Tom Reed		Jun 27, 2012
R-MI	Fred Upton		Jun 28, 2012
R-CA	Ken Calvert		Jun 28, 2012
R-IN	Larry Bucshon		Jun 28, 2012
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson		Jun 28, 2012
R-CO	Cory Gardner		Jun 29, 2012
R-VA	H. Morgan Griffith		Jun 29, 2012
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Jun 29, 2012
R-FL	Richard B. Nugent		Jun 29, 2012
R-TN	Stephen Lee Fincher		Jun 29, 2012
R-NC	Sue Wilkins Myrick		Jun 29, 2012
R-OK	Tom Cole		Jun 29, 2012
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Jul 9, 2012
D-CO	Ed Perlmutter		Jul 9, 2012
R-MN	Erik Paulsen		Jul 9, 2012
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Jul 9, 2012
R-UT	Jason Chaffetz		Jul 9, 2012
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Jul 9, 2012
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Jul 9, 2012
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Jul 9, 2012
R-UT	Rob Bishop		Jul 9, 2012
R-OH	Robert E. Latta		Jul 9, 2012
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jul 10, 2012
D-UT	Jim Matheson		Jul 10, 2012
D-PA	Mark S. Critz		Jul 11, 2012
D-OH	Betty Sutton		Jul 17, 2012
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Jul 17, 2012
R-OK	James Lankford		Jul 17, 2012
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond		Jul 19, 2012
D-MD	Donna F. Edwards		Jul 19, 2012
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Jul 31, 2012
D-NY	William L. Owens		Aug 1, 2012

Committees 2

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

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Financial Services Committee	Referred Oct 13, 2011
	Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology Subcommittee	Referred Oct 21, 2011
House	Budget Committee	Referred Oct 13, 2011

Actions 14

Everything that happened, newest first.

Dec 18, 2012Signed by President.
Dec 18, 2012Became Public Law No: 112-209.
Dec 12, 2012Presented to President.
Dec 11, 2012Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Dec 10, 2012Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S7706)

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In the Congressional Record 3

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 S7706	Richard Blumenthal D-CT	Dec 10, 2012
Extensions	Debate and remarks E1424	Nita M. Lowey D-NY	Aug 3, 2012
House	Debate and remarks H5613–H5616Text printed H5613	David Scott D-GA, Judy Biggert R-IL, Robert J. Dold R-IL	Aug 1, 2012

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5 which states ``The Congress shall have the power . . . To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standards of Weights and Measures.''

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H6921.

CRS reports 3

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 3

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R44623	Commemorative Coins: Background, Legislative Process, and Issues for Congress	Report	Feb 4, 2026
R46644	Commemorative Legislation in Congress: Trends and Observations, 93rd Through 115th Congresses Archived	Report	Dec 18, 2020
R40879	Resolutions of Inquiry: An Analysis of Their Use in the House, 1947-2017 Archived	Report	Nov 9, 2017

Related bills 1

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 1935	March of Dimes Commemorative Coin Act of 2011	Related bill	Dec 1, 2011

Titles 5

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

Official Title as Introduced: To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition and celebration of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the March of Dimes Foundation.
Short Titles as Introduced: March of Dimes Commemorative Coin Act of 2011
Short Titles as Passed House: March of Dimes Commemorative Coin Act of 2012
Short Titles as Passed Senate: March of Dimes Commemorative Coin Act of 2012
Short Titles as Enacted: March of Dimes Commemorative Coin Act of 2012

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector.

Text 4

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

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