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The bill formally honors Sarah Keys Evans and promotes public awareness of civil rights with minimal fiscal impact, but it is primarily symbolic and does not create new legal remedies while imposing only modest administrative and production costs.
Students, the general public, and communities affected by segregation (especially Black Americans and women) receive formal recognition of Sarah Keys Evans and increased public education about civil rights history and the invalidity of segregation in interstate travel.
Members of the public gain a lasting national honor as Congress awards a Congressional Gold Medal to Sarah Keys Evans, preserving her legacy and providing a focal point for civic education and public commemoration.
Taxpayers are unlikely to face significant new costs because sales of bronze replicas and other numismatic items are required/expected to cover production costs, limiting the need for additional Treasury funding.
People seeking new legal remedies (including victims of historical or ongoing discrimination) get no substantive change in law or new enforcement tools—the measure is primarily symbolic.
Taxpayers and federal employees face small costs and minor administrative burden: producing and presenting the medal incurs modest Treasury expense and requires agency time to administer sales and production.
If medals are priced only to cover costs there will be little or no revenue to support other public programs; alternatively, Mint sales could prioritize numismatic revenue rather than broader public spending priorities.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Introduced February 14, 2025 by Don Davis · Last progress February 14, 2025
Directs the Treasury to mint a Congressional Gold Medal for Sarah Keys Evans, allows sale of bronze duplicates to cover costs, and classifies the medals under federal numismatic law.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to produce and present a Congressional Gold Medal honoring Sarah Keys Evans for her 1952 refusal to give up her seat on an interstate bus and for the resulting Interstate Commerce Commission decision that helped end segregation on interstate buses. The bill also allows the Treasury to strike and sell bronze duplicate copies to cover production costs and designates the medals as "national medals" and "numismatic items" under federal law.