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The bill preserves a longstanding restriction against depicting living Presidents and clarifies design rules (strengthening public trust and implementation clarity) while narrowing commemorative flexibility and incurring potential lost revenue and administrative adjustments for the Mint/BEP.
Taxpayers and the general public: Prohibits living Presidents from appearing on U.S. coins or currency, reinforcing tradition and reducing perceptions of self‑aggrandizement by officeholders.
Federal Treasury and Mint/BEP staff: Clarifies and standardizes design rules for circulating and commemorative coinage and currency, making implementation more straightforward for the Treasury and reducing ambiguity in design decisions.
Collectors, the Mint/BEP, and taxpayers: Limits the ability to honor living individuals with commemorative designs, reducing potential revenue from collectible coin and currency issues.
U.S. Mint and BEP staff: Could require redesign or cancellation of planned items that depict living persons, creating administrative costs and workflow disruption.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Prohibits putting portraits or busts of any living person on United States coins or on United States currency. The change specifically bars portraits of living Presidents on coin designs (including commemorative coins) and bars portraits of any living person on currency, implemented by amending 31 U.S.C. § 5112.
Introduced October 10, 2025 by Ritchie Torres · Last progress October 10, 2025