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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 284 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To reauthorize the Congressional Award Act. |
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| 6 | 6 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 7 | 7 | | JANUARY28, 2025 |
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| 8 | 8 | | Ms. L |
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| 9 | 9 | | UMMISintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 10 | 10 | | to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs |
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| 11 | 11 | | A BILL |
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| 12 | 12 | | To reauthorize the Congressional Award Act. |
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| 13 | 13 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 14 | 14 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 15 | 15 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 16 | 16 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Congressional Award 4 |
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| 17 | 17 | | Program Reauthorization Act’’. 5 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SEC. 2. TERMINATION. 6 |
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| 19 | 19 | | (a) I |
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| 20 | 20 | | NGENERAL.—Section 108 of the Congressional 7 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Award Act (2 U.S.C. 808) is amended by striking ‘‘Octo-8 |
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| 22 | 22 | | ber 1, 2023’’ and inserting ‘‘October 1, 2028’’. 9 |
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| 23 | 23 | | (b) R |
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| 24 | 24 | | ETROACTIVEEFFECTIVEDATE.—The amend-10 |
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| 25 | 25 | | ment made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted 11 |
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| 26 | 26 | | on October 1, 2023. 12 |
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| 29 | 29 | | •S 284 IS |
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| 30 | 30 | | SEC. 3. OTHER AMENDMENTS. 1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Section 102 of the Congressional Award Act (2 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | U.S.C. 802) is amended— 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Each medal 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | shall consist of gold-plate over bronze, rhodium over 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | bronze, or bronze and shall be struck in accordance 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | with subsection (f).’’; and 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (2) in subsection (f)(1), in the second sentence, 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | by striking ‘‘Subject to subsection (a), the’’ and in-9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | serting ‘‘The’’. 10 |
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