H.R. 1369 — President Jimmy Carter Congressional Gold Medal Act

This section provides the short title of the Act as the “President Jimmy Carter Congressional Gold Medal Act.”

This section sets forth congressional findings regarding the life, public service, and postpresidential humanitarian work of President Jimmy Carter, including that he served as the 39th President from 1977 to 1981, was born on October 1, 1924, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946, served 7 years as a submarine officer and 8 additional years in the Navy Reserve, married Rosalynn Smith on July 7, 1946, entered Georgia state politics in 1962, served in the Georgia State Senate beginning in 1963, and was sworn in as Georgia’s 76th governor in 1971. It also finds that his presidency advanced civil and human rights, included the Panama Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, the SALT II treaty, and diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, and that his domestic legacy included the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.), the Nation’s first national energy policy, and the creation of the Departments of Education and Energy. This section further finds that, after leaving office, President Carter and Rosalynn Carter founded the Carter Center, which works on conflict resolution, election monitoring, and neglected tropical diseases, and that their efforts helped reduce Guinea worm disease cases from an estimated 3,500,000 in 1986 to 14 in 2023. It also finds that the Carter Work Project with Habitat for Humanity involved more than 100,000 volunteers across 14 countries and resulted in more than 4,400 homes built, improved, or repaired, and that President Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

This section authorizes the posthumous presentation of a single Congressional Gold Medal to former President Jimmy Carter in recognition of his service to the Nation and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike the medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions, including an image of and the name of Jimmy Carter. It also requires that, after the award, the medal be given to the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

This section authorizes the Secretary to strike and sell bronze duplicates of the gold medal produced under section 3 at a price sufficient to cover the full costs of production, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses.

This section establishes medals struck under this Act as national medals under chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code, and as numismatic items for purposes of 31 U.S.C. §§ 5134 and 5136. (Thus, the medals are treated as official U.S. Mint products subject to the statutory authorities governing national medals and numismatic items.)

This section authorizes the United States Mint to charge the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund for the costs of striking the medals authorized by this Act and directs that amounts received from the sale of duplicate bronze medals authorized under section 4 be deposited into that fund.