A bill to amend Public Law 112-59 to provide for the display of the congressional gold medal awarded to the Montford Point Marines, United States Marine Corps, by the Smithsonian Institution and at other appropriate locations.

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Requires the congressional gold medal awarded in honor of the Montford Point Marines, U. S. Marine Corps, in recognition of their dedicated service during World War II, to be given to the Smithsonian Institution where it will be displayed and made available for research.

Expresses the sense of Congress that the Smithsonian Institution should make the medal available for display elsewhere, particularly at other appropriate locations associated with the Montford Point Marines.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2147 Considered and Passed Senate (CPS)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2147

     To amend Public Law 112-59 to provide for the display of the 
congressional gold medal awarded to the Montford Point Marines, United 
   States Marine Corps, by the Smithsonian Institution and at other 
                         appropriate locations.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 13, 2014

  Mrs. Hagan (for herself, Mr. Rubio, and Mr. Nelson) introduced the 
following bill; which was read twice, considered, read the third time, 
                               and passed

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend Public Law 112-59 to provide for the display of the 
congressional gold medal awarded to the Montford Point Marines, United 
   States Marine Corps, by the Smithsonian Institution and at other 
                         appropriate locations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. DISPLAY OF CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL BY THE SMITHSONIAN 
              INSTITUTION.

    Section 2 of the Act entitled ``An Act to grant the congressional 
gold medal to the Montford Point Marines'', approved November 23, 2011 
(31 U.S.C. 5111 note), is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Smithsonian Institution.--
            ``(1) In general.--Following the award of the gold medal in 
        honor of the Montford Point Marines, United States Marine 
        Corps, under subsection (a), the gold medal shall be given to 
        the Smithsonian Institution, where it will be displayed as 
        appropriate and made available for research.
            ``(2) Sense of congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
        the Smithsonian Institution should make the gold medal received 
        under paragraph (1) available for display elsewhere, 
        particularly at other appropriate locations associated with the 
        Montford Point Marines, United States Marine Corps.''.
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