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H.R. 1396: Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act

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H.R. 1396: Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act

116th Congress · introduced 2019-02-27 · Science, Technology, Communications · Latest: Became Public Law No: 116-68.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-02-27 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Became Public Law No: 116-68. (final step reached)
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Official title

Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act

Plain summary

Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act (Sec. 3) This bill requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives and President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of one Congressional Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in recognition of her service to the United States as a mathematician; one Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Christine Darden, for her service to the United States as an aeronautical engineer; two Congressional Gold Medals in commemoration of the lives of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, in recognition of their service to the United States during the Space Race; and one Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of all the women who served as computers, mathematicians, and engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) between the 1930s and the 1970s. (Sec. 4) The Department of the Treasury may strike and sell bronze duplicates of these medals.

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Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Public Law)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30] · 314 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Frank D. Lucas (R-OK), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Robin L. Kelly (D-IL), Bill Foster (D-IL), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Dina Titus (D-NV), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Sean Casten (D-IL), Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA), Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Troy Balderson (R-OH), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Joseph D. Morelle (D-NY), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Lucy McBath (D-GA), Haley M. Stevens (D-MI) and 254 more.

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Record fed-us-cong116-hr1396 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116