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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 595 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act to make |
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| 6 | 6 | | certain technical corrections to facilitate the lawful trade and collecting |
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| 7 | 7 | | of numismatic materials. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY21, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. V |
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| 11 | 11 | | ANDUYNE(for herself, Mr. JOHNSONof South Dakota, Mr. AMODEI |
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| 12 | 12 | | of Nevada, Mr. O |
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| 13 | 13 | | WENS, and Ms. JACOBS) introduced the following bill; |
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| 14 | 14 | | which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To amend the Convention on Cultural Property Implementa- |
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| 17 | 17 | | tion Act to make certain technical corrections to facilitate |
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| 18 | 18 | | the lawful trade and collecting of numismatic materials. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS TO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | PROPERTY IMPLEMENTATION ACT. 4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | (a) D |
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| 24 | 24 | | EFINITIONS.—Section 302 of the Convention on 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Cultural Property Implementation Act (19 U.S.C. 2601) 6 |
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| 26 | 26 | | is amended— 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (1) by redesignating paragraphs (8), (9), (10), 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | and (11) as paragraphs (9), (10), (11), and (12), re-2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | spectively; and 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (2) by inserting after paragraph (7) the fol-4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | lowing: 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | ‘‘(8) The term ‘numismatic material’ includes 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related ob-7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | jects.’’. 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (b) I |
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| 39 | 39 | | MPORTRESTRICTIONS.—Section 307 of the Con-9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | vention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (19 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | U.S.C. 2606) is amended— 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (1) in subsection (b)— 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘; or’’ at 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | the end and inserting a comma; 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (B) in paragraph (2)(B), by adding ‘‘or’’at 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | the end; and 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (C) by inserting after paragraph (2)(B) (as 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | amended) the following: 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘(3) in the case of such material that is numis-19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | matic material, satisfactory evidence that the mate-20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | rial was acquired lawfully, is of a known type, and 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | is not known to be the direct product of illicit exca-22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | vations within a State Party,’’; 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (2) in subsection (c)— 24 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘and’’ 1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | at the end; 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (B) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking the 3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (C) by adding at the end the following: 5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | ‘‘(3) for purposes of subsection (b)(3), one or 6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | more declarations under oath by the importer or the 7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | person for whose account the material is imported, 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | stating that, to the best of his knowledge, the numis-9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | matic material— 10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘(A) was acquired lawfully in one or more 11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | States Party; 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | ‘‘(B) was lawfully exported from a State 13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Party in which the numismatic material was ac-14 |
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| 72 | 72 | | quired; 15 |
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| 73 | 73 | | ‘‘(C) is of a type known to exist in multiple 16 |
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| 74 | 74 | | examples which has been published in a ref-17 |
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| 75 | 75 | | erence work on numismatics; and 18 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ‘‘(D) is not known to be the direct product 19 |
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| 77 | 77 | | of illicit excavations within another State Party 20 |
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| 78 | 78 | | after the effective date for import restrictions 21 |
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| 79 | 79 | | on numismatic material granted to that State 22 |
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| 80 | 80 | | Party.’’; and 23 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (3) by adding at the end the following: 24 |
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| 85 | 85 | | ‘‘(e) NOOTHERDOCUMENTATION REQUIRED.—The 1 |
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| 86 | 86 | | customs officer reviewing the satisfactory evidence shall 2 |
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| 87 | 87 | | not require any documentation or statements additional 3 |
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| 88 | 88 | | to that which is set forth in subsection (c) unless the cus-4 |
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| 89 | 89 | | toms officer has probable cause based on documentary evi-5 |
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| 90 | 90 | | dence to believe that the satisfactory evidence is false or 6 |
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| 91 | 91 | | fraudulent.’’. 7 |
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