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S. 3070: Boy Scouts of America Centennial Commemorative Coin Act

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S. 3070: Boy Scouts of America Centennial Commemorative Coin Act

110th Congress · introduced 2008-05-22 · Commemorations · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2008-05-22 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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What does this mean?

Official title

Boy Scouts of America Centennial Commemorative Coin Act

Plain summary

Boy Scouts of America Centennial Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue up to 350,000 $1 coins in commemoration of the centennial of the founding of the Boy Scouts of America. Requires the coin design to be emblematic of the 100 years of the organization. Restricts issuance of such coins to February 8 through December 31, 2010. Subjects coin sales to a surcharge of $10 per coin. Requires payment of such surcharges to the National Boy Scouts of America Foundation, to be made available to local councils in the form of grants for the extension of Scouting in hard-to-serve areas.

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Official text

Boy Scouts of America Centennial Commemorative Coin Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL] · 79 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Roger F. Wicker (R-MS), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Barrasso (R-WY), John Thune (R-SD), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), John Cornyn (R-TX), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Patty Murray (D-WA) and 19 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong110-s3070 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong110 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong110