Aretha Franklin Congressional Gold Medal Act

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 115th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

KHD HarrisSponsor

41 cosponsors · 35 D, 5 R, 1 I

CBD Booker TCD Carper CCD Coons CCD Cortez Masto RDD Durbin TDD Duckworth DFD Feinstein KGD Gillibrand OHR Hatch MHD Hirono MHD Hassan DJD Jones AKD Klobuchar TKD Kaine JMD Manchin BND Nelson GPD Peters DSD Stabenow SWD Whitehouse EWD Warren PLD Leahy PMD Murray BSI Sanders JSD Shaheen CMD McCaskill JRD Reed TSD Smith TBD Baldwin RBD Blumenthal MCD Cantwell EMD Markey CSD Schumer CVD Van Hollen MBD Bennet BMD Menendez JMD Merkley LAR Alexander BCD Cardin TSR Scott RBR Blunt CGR Gardner

20 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

This bill instructs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the posthumous presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal in commemoration of Aretha Franklin in recognition of her outstanding artistic and historical significance to the culture of the United States.