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H.R. 1396 · 116th Congress

Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act

Law · 116-68 · Nov 8, 2019
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EJD JohnsonSponsor
314 cosponsors · 233 D, 81 R
FLR Lucas CBD Bustos SCD Cohen DKD Kilmer DLD Lipinski END Norton BWD Watson Coleman KBD Bass MBR Brooks JBD Brownley NBD Barragán LBD Blunt Rochester TBR Balderson YCD Clarke CCD Crist SCD Casten GCD Cisneros SDD DelBene BFD Foster RGD Grijalva KHD Hill SJD Jackson Lee RKD Kelly RKD Khanna BLD Lee ALD Lawson CLD Lamb ELD Luria BMD McCollum GMD Moore JMD McNerney EPD Perlmutter LRD Roybal-Allard CRD Ruppersberger CRD Richmond BSD Scott JSD Schakowsky ASD Schiff ASD Sires JSD Speier BTD Thompson DTD Titus PTD Tonko RTD Tlaib FVD Vela DWD Wasserman Schultz RWR Weber CAD Axne SBD Bishop GKD Butterfield JBD Beatty DBD Beyer ECD Cleaver TCD Cox DDD Davis TDD Deutch DDD Dingell VDD Demings DED Evans AED Espaillat TGD Gabbard JGR González-Colón AHD Hastings KHD Horn PJD Jayapal MKD Kaptur ZLD Lofgren NLD Lowey CMD Maloney SMD Maloney JMD Morelle DMD Mucarsel-Powell LMD McBath RNR Norman AOD Ocasio-Cortez IOD Omar BRD Rush TSD Sewell DSD Soto TSD Suozzi HSD Stevens NVD Velázquez FWD Wilson SWD Wild DBR Bacon JBR Baird JCD Cooper ECD Cummings MCR Cloud LFD Fletcher VGD Gonzalez CHD Houlahan RKD Kind JMD McGovern BMD McAdams MPD Pocan SPD Peters BSD Sherman MSD Sherrill KSD Schrier JWD Wexton AAD Adams CAD Allred SBD Bonamici ABD Bera ABR Biggs JCD Clyburn WCD Clay MCD Cartwright MFD Fudge CGD García AGR Gonzalez JLD Lewis ALD Lowenthal AMD McEachin BPR Posey DPD Payne SPD Plaskett CPD Pappas APD Pressley JRD Raskin MVD Veasey MWR Waltz ABD Brown ACD Carson ADD Delgado AGD Green SHD Horsford JHD Hayes HJD Johnson HJD Jeffries BLD Lawrence GMD Meeks POR Olson DSD Scott LUD Underwood RWR Wright BBR Babin KCD Castor GCD Connolly JCD Castro LDD Doggett VED Escobar ASD Smith ESD Swalwell RWR Wittman HCD Cuellar AKD Kirkpatrick GSD Stanton DYR Young KBR Brady KCR Conaway PDD DeFazio SGD Garcia WHR Hurd MMR McCaul JSD Sarbanes JCR Carter DCR Crenshaw RDD DeLauro SDD Davids EED Engel AED Eshoo LFD Frankel SHD Hoyer DHD Haaland JKD Kennedy JLD Larson JLD Langevin BLD Luján TLD Lieu DMD Matsui GND Napolitano FPD Pallone DPD Price KPD Porter KRD Rice LSD Sánchez DSD Shalala MTD Takano NTD Torres JVD Vargas PWD Welch ECD Case JCD Costa JCD Courtney KCD Clark ACD Craig JCD Crow MDD DeSaulnier JGD Garamendi JGD Golden BHD Higgins JHD Harder DKD Kildee AKD Kuster SLD Lynch DLD Loebsack SLD Lee GMD Meng DND Norcross CPD Peterson CPD Pingree JPD Panetta MQD Quigley RRD Ruiz JSD Serrano ASD Spanberger DTD Trone JYD Yarmuth RAR Aderholt JCD Chu DCD Cicilline TCD Cárdenas SCD Carbajal MDD Doyle SDD Davis KGR Granger RKD Krishnamoorthi ALD Levin KMR Marchant DMR McKinley RMR Marshall TMD Malinowski JND Nadler JND Neguse BPD Pascrell MRD Rose HRD Rouda RWR Williams BWR Westerman EBD Blumenauer DDD DeGette MDD Dean BFR Flores AFD Finkenauer JGD Gottheimer JGD Gomez LGR Gooden DLR Lesko RND Neal BSD Schneider MSD Scanlon ESD Slotkin MTR Thornberry VTR Taylor LTD Trahan XTD Torres Small PVD Visclosky ABD Brindisi VHR Hartzler JHR Herrera Beutler JHD Huffman SMD Murphy TRR Reed CRR Roy MTD Thompson GTR Thompson MAR Amodei PAD Aguilar BBD Boyle BCR Carter CFR Fleischmann RGD Gallego JHD Himes DHD Heck DKR Kustoff SMD Moulton GSD Sablan MSD San Nicolas JWR Wilson JAR Arrington MBR Bost RCR Crawford JCD Correa DJR Joyce PKR King SKR King MKR Kelly AKR Kinzinger AKD Kim RLD Larsen RLR Latta MLD Levin MMR Mullin CMR Miller DNR Newhouse TOD O’Halleran DPD Phillips MRR Rogers TRD Ryan MRR Roby DRR Rouzer JSR Shimkus MSR Simpson STR Tipton GWR Walden SWR Womack JCD Cunningham FSR Sensenbrenner TBR Burchett ASR Scott TCR Cole BCR Cline BFR Fitzpatrick BLR Long CMR McMorris Rodgers AWR Wagner SBR Brooks KCR Calvert FRR Rooney VBR Buchanan KHR Hern PMR McHenry

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

  1. House Introduced Feb 27, 2019
  2. House Passed Sep 19, 2019
  3. Senate Passed Oct 17, 2019
  4. President To the President Oct 29, 2019
  5. President Signed Nov 8, 2019
  6. Law Nov 8, 2019
What it does: CRS summary · Public Law · Nov 8, 2019

Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act

(Sec. 3) This bill requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives and President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of

  • one Congressional Gold Medal to Katherine Johnson, in recognition of her service to the United States as a mathematician;
  • one Congressional Gold Medal to Dr. Christine Darden, for her service to the United States as an aeronautical engineer;
  • two Congressional Gold Medals in commemoration of the lives of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, in recognition of their service to the United States during the Space Race; and
  • one Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of all the women who served as computers, mathematicians, and engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) between the 1930s and the 1970s.

(Sec. 4) The Department of the Treasury may strike and sell bronze duplicates of these medals.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act

Latest action (Nov 8, 2019): Became Public Law No: 116-68.

Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications · Origin: House · Introduced: Feb 27, 2019

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

  1. House Introduced Feb 27, 2019
  2. House Passed Sep 19, 2019
  3. Senate Passed Oct 17, 2019
  4. President To the President Oct 29, 2019
  5. President Signed Nov 8, 2019
  6. Law Nov 8, 2019

No recorded floor vote found.