S. 531 (es) To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the Congress to Rosa Parks in recognition of her contributions to the Nation. [Engrossed in Senate] ...

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        S.531

                       One Hundred Sixth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
   the sixth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine


                                 An Act


 
   To authorize the President to award a gold medal on behalf of the 
   Congress to Rosa Parks in recognition of her contributions to the 
                                 Nation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
        (1) Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, 
    Alabama, the first child of James and Leona (Edwards) McCauley;
        (2) Rosa Parks is honored as the ``first lady of civil rights'' 
    and the ``mother of the freedom movement'', and her quiet dignity 
    ignited the most significant social movement in the history of the 
    United States;
        (3) Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, 
    Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, 
    and her stand for equal rights became legendary;
        (4) news of Rosa Parks' arrest resulted in 42,000 African 
    Americans boycotting Montgomery buses for 381 days, beginning on 
    December 5, 1955, until the bus segregation laws were changed on 
    December 21, 1956;
        (5) the United States Supreme Court ruled on November 13, 1956, 
    that the Montgomery segregation law was unconstitutional, and on 
    December 20, 1956, Montgomery officials were ordered to desegregate 
    buses;
        (6) the civil rights movement led to the Civil Rights Act of 
    1964, which broke down the barriers of legal discrimination against 
    African Americans and made equality before the law a reality for 
    all Americans;
        (7) Rosa Parks is the recipient of many awards and accolades 
    for her efforts on behalf of racial harmony, including the 
    Springarn Award, the NAACP's highest honor for civil rights 
    contributions, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation's 
    highest civilian honor, and the first International Freedom 
    Conductor Award from the National Underground Railroad Freedom 
    Center;
        (8) Rosa Parks has dedicated her life to the cause of universal 
    human rights and truly embodies the love of humanity and freedom;
        (9) Rosa Parks was the first woman to join the Montgomery 
    chapter of the NAACP, was an active volunteer for the Montgomery 
    Voters League, and in 1987, cofounded the Rosa and Raymond Parks 
    Institute for Self-Development;
        (10) Rosa Parks, by her quiet courage, symbolizes all that is 
    vital about nonviolent protest, as she endured threats of death and 
    persisted as an advocate for the simple, basic lessons she taught 
    the Nation and from which the Nation has benefited immeasurably; 
    and
        (11) Rosa Parks, who has resided in the State of Michigan since 
    1957, has become a living icon for freedom in America.

SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL.

    (a) Presentation Authorized.--The President is authorized to award 
to Rosa Parks, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate 
design honoring Rosa Parks in recognition of her contributions to the 
Nation.
    (b) Design and Striking.--For the purposes of the award referred to 
in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury (hereafter in this Act 
referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall strike a gold medal with 
suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the 
Secretary.

SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS.

    The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold 
medal struck pursuant to section 2, under such regulations as the 
Secretary may prescribe, and at a price sufficient to cover the costs 
thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and 
overhead expenses, and the cost of the gold medal.

SEC. 4. STATUS AS NATIONAL MEDALS.

    The medals struck pursuant to this Act are national medals for 
purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code.

SEC. 5. FUNDING.

    (a) Authority To Use Fund Amounts.--There is authorized to be 
charged against the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund an amount 
not to exceed $30,000 to pay for the cost of the medals authorized by 
this Act.
    (b) Proceeds of Sale.--Amounts received from the sale of duplicate 
bronze medals under section 3 shall be deposited in the United States 
Mint Public Enterprise Fund.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.

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