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The bill provides meaningful symbolic recognition and public display of the 761st Tank Battalion's service—raising awareness and honoring veterans—while imposing only modest fiscal and administrative costs and offering no direct material benefits to surviving veterans or their families.
Black veterans of the 761st Tank Battalion and their families receive formal national recognition, honoring their service and raising public awareness of the racial discrimination and delayed recognition they faced.
The Congressional Gold Medal will be placed in the National Museum of African American History and Culture (with encouraged loans to battalion-associated locations), ensuring public access for display, education, and research.
Members of the public and supporters can buy bronze replicas, enabling broader engagement and commemoration while sales are structured to cover production costs so they should not require additional taxpayer funding.
Surviving veterans and their families get symbolic recognition but no direct material benefits, services, or funding from the legislation.
There are modest costs and fiscal risks borne by taxpayers — a small federal expense to mint the gold medal, minor administrative costs to implement classifications/reporting, and the possibility that sales may not fully recoup production costs.
Buyers (including middle-class families and collectors) may face higher-than-expected prices because replicas and numismatic medals can be priced to cover full overhead, machinery, and premium numismatic margins.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Awards a Congressional Gold Medal to the 761st Tank Battalion, directs the Mint to strike the gold medal and bronze duplicates for sale, and places the gold medal at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Authorizes Congress to present a Congressional Gold Medal to the 761st Tank Battalion in recognition of their service in Europe during World War II. Directs the Treasury (through the Mint) to strike a gold medal for donation to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, allows the Mint to produce and sell bronze duplicates at cost, and provides for Mint cost recovery through its Public Enterprise Fund.
Introduced February 26, 2025 by Gary James Palmer · Last progress February 26, 2025