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S. 527: A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or in the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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S. 527: A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or in the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

114th Congress · introduced 2015-02-12 · Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues · Latest: Held at the desk.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-02-12 · 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: Held at the desk. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or in the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Plain summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate reported version is repeated here.) (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March during March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. (Sec. 4) The medals struck pursuant to this Act are national medals.

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Official text

A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or in the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed Senate without amendment)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL] · 74 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: S. 527, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in the Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act (2015-03-04); CBO cost estimate: S. 527, a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Foot Soldiers who participated in the Bloody Sunday, Turnaround Tuesday, or the final Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in March of 1965, which served as a catalyst for the Voting Rights Act (2015-03-04)

Cosponsors on this site

Cory A. Booker (D-NJ), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Susan M. Collins (R-ME), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Steve Daines (R-MT), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Patty Murray (D-WA), Gary C. Peters (D-MI), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Ted Cruz (R-TX), James E. Risch (R-ID), Roger F. Wicker (R-MS), John Barrasso (R-WY), Tim Scott (R-SC), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John Hoeven (R-ND), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Christopher Murphy (D-CT), Ron Wyden (D-OR), John Cornyn (R-TX), John Thune (R-SD), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Jack Reed (D-RI) and 14 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-s527 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114