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119THCONGRESS
1
STSESSION H. R. 1976
To require $20 notes to include a portrait of Harriet Tubman, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH10, 2025
Mrs. B
EATTY(for herself, Ms. ADAMS, Ms. BROWN, Mr. CARSON, Mr. CAR-
TERof Louisiana, Mr. CASTEN, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Ms.
C
LARKEof New York, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. DAVISof Illinois, Mrs. DIN-
GELL, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. EVANSof Pennsylvania, Mrs. FOUSHEE, Mr.
G
REENof Texas, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. JACKSONof Illinois,
Mr. J
OHNSONof Georgia, Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE, Ms. KELLYof Illinois,
Mr. L
YNCH, Mrs. MCIVER, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. MFUME, Mr. NEGUSE, Ms.
N
ORTON, Ms. OMAR, Ms. SEWELL, Mr. THOMPSONof Mississippi, Ms.
T
LAIB, Mr. TORRESof New York, Ms. UNDERWOOD, Mr. VEASEY, Ms.
V
ELA´ZQUEZ, Mrs. WATSONCOLEMAN, Ms. WILLIAMSof Georgia, and
Ms. W
ILSONof Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Financial Services
A BILL
To require $20 notes to include a portrait of Harriet
Tubman, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Woman on the Twenty 4
Act of 2025’’. 5
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 1
Congress finds the following: 2
(1) In 1875, Congress adopted the dollar as the 3
monetary unit of the United States. 4
(2) In 1877, the Bureau of Engraving and 5
Printing of the Department of the Treasury began 6
printing all United States paper money. 7
(3) The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created 8
the Federal Reserve as the Nation’s central bank 9
and provided for a national banking system. The 10
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 11
issued new paper money called Federal Reserve 12
notes. 13
(4) The Secretary of the Treasury has histori-14
cally selected the designs shown on Federal Reserve 15
notes with the advice of the Bureau of Engraving 16
and Printing. 17
(5) United States Federal Reserve notes now in 18
production bear the following portraits: 19
(A) President George Washington on the 20
$1 bill. 21
(B) President Thomas Jefferson on the $2 22
bill. 23
(C) President Abraham Lincoln on the $5 24
bill. 25
(D) Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill. 26
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(E) President Andrew Jackson on the $20 1
bill. 2
(F) President Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 3
bill. 4
(G) Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill. 5
(6) There are also several denominations of 6
Federal Reserve notes that are no longer produced. 7
These include the $500 bill with the portrait of 8
President William McKinley, the $1,000 bill with a 9
portrait of President Grover Cleveland, the $5,000 10
bill with a portrait of President James Madison, the 11
$10,000 bill with a portrait of Salmon P. Chase, and 12
the $100,000 bill with a portrait of President Wood-13
row Wilson. 14
(7) Since the first general circulation of paper 15
money, no woman has ever held the honor of being 16
featured on paper money. 17
(8) In June 2015, then-Treasury Secretary 18
Jack Lew announced that the portrait of a woman 19
would be featured on the new $10 bill. 20
(9) After a lengthy period of public engagement 21
between the public and the Department of the 22
Treasury, on April 20, 2016, then-Treasury Sec-23
retary Lew announced that ‘‘for the first time in 24
more than a century, the front of our currency will 25
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feature the portrait of a woman—Harriet Tubman 1
on the $20 note’’. Additionally, the Secretary an-2
nounced the reverse of the new $10 note would fea-3
ture an image of the historic march for suffrage that 4
ended on the steps of the United States Department 5
of Treasury, featuring the leaders of the suffrage 6
movement—Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan 7
B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice 8
Paul. Finally, the Secretary also announced the re-9
verse of the $5 note would feature an image of his-10
toric figures at the Lincoln Memorial who shaped 11
our history and democracy, including Marian Ander-12
son, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr. 13
SEC. 3. HARRIET TUBMAN ON THE $20 NOTE. 14
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Section 5114(b) of title 31, 15
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 16
following: ‘‘No $20 note of United States currency may 17
be printed after December 31, 2028, which does not 18
prominently feature a portrait of Harriet Tubman on the 19
front face of the note.’’. 20
(b) P
RELIMINARYDESIGN.—The Secretary of the 21
Treasury shall release to the public the preliminary design 22
of the $20 note prominently featuring a portrait of Har-23
riet Tubman no later than December 31, 2026. 24
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