,i  #aafth ,,congress  #ast ,session    
,h4 ,r4 #aabg  ,,in ,,the ,,house ,,of  
,,representatives  ,february #h1        
#bjai,mrs4 ,carolyn ,b4 ,maloney of ,new
 ,york 7for herself1 ,mr4 ,holding1 ,ms4
 ,gabbard1 ,mr4 ,bera1 ,mr4             
,krishnamoorthi1 ,ms4 ,jayapal1 and ,mr4
 ,khanna7 introduced the following bill2
 which was referred to the ,committee on
 ,financial ,services1 and in addition  
to the ,committee on ,house             
,administration1 for a period to be     
subsequently determined by the ,speaker1
 in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the           
jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
,a ,,bill  ,to posthumously award a     
,congressional gold medal to ,mahatma   
,gandhi in recognition of his           
contributions to the ,nation by the     
promotion of nonviolence4  #a4 ,findings
 ,congress finds the following3 7#a7    
,few people have had as significant and 
as positive an impact on the world and  
freedom than ,mohandas ,karamchand      

,gandhi4  7#b7 ,gandhi led the ,indian  
people to independence from ,british    
rule in ,august #aidg through           
non-violent means1 staging massive      
peaceful demonstrations against poverty 
while supporting women's rights and     
religious tolerance4  7#c7 ,gandhi's    
legacy has inspired hundreds of millions
 of people around the world to pursue   
non-violence as a means to achieve      
freedom and equality1 including ,martin 
,luther ,king1 ,jr4's movement to end   
racial injustice in the ,united ,states 
and ,nelson ,mandela's fight to end     
apartheid in ,south ,africa4  7#d7 ,for 
his efforts1 ,gandhi was given the title
 of ,mahatma1 or ,great ,soul and was   
often called ,bapu in ,india1 which     
means father4  7#e7 ,over #b1jjj1jjj    
people attended ,gandhi's funeral and   
his memory and teachings persist still  
today4  7#f7 ,october #b1 ,gandhi's     
birthday1 was declared as ,international
 ,day of ,non-,violence by the ,united  
,nations to1 disseminate the message of 

non-violence1 including through         
education and public awareness and      
reaffirm the universal relevance of the 
principle of non-violence and desire to 
secure a culture of peace1 tolerance1   
and understanding through non-violence4 
7#g7 ,ensuring that people around the   
globe know about1 understand1 and adopt 
,gandhi's principles of ahimsa          
7non-violence71 satyagraha 7appeal to1  
insistence on1 or reliance on the       
,truth7 and swaraj 7self-rule7 are more 
important than ever4  #b4 ,congressional
 gold medal  7a7 ,presentation          
authorized ,the ,speaker of the ,house  
of ,representatives and the ,president  
pro tempore of the ,senate shall make   
appropriate arrangements for the        
presentation1 on behalf of ,congress1 of
 a gold medal of appropriate design1 to 
,mahatma ,gandhi1 in recognition of his 
contributions to the ,nation by the     
promotion of nonviolence4  7b7 ,design  
and striking ,for the purpose of the    
presentation referred to in subsection  

7a71 the ,secretary of the ,treasury    
7hereinafter in this ,act referred to as
 the ,secretary7 shall strike a gold    
medal with suitable emblems1 devices1   
and inscriptions to be determined by the
 ,secretary4  7c7 ,smithsonian          
,institution  7#a7 ,in general          
,following the award of the gold medal  
under subsection 7a71 the gold medal    
shall be given to the ,smithsonian      
,institution1 where it shall be         
available for display as appropriate and
 made available for research4  7#b7     
,sense of ,congress ,it is the sense of 
,congress that the ,smithsonian         
,institution should make the gold medal 
received under paragraph 7#a7 available 
for display at other locations1         
particularly such locations as are      
associated with ,mahatma ,gandhi4  #c4  
,duplicate medals ,under such           
regulations as the ,secretary may       
prescribe1 the ,secretary may strike and
 sell duplicates in bronze of the gold  
medal struck pursuant to section #b at a

 price sufficient to cover the cost of  
the bronze medals1 including labor1     
materials1 dies1 use of machinery1 and  
overhead expenses1 and the cost of the  
gold medal4  #d4 ,national medals ,the  
medals struck under this ,act are       
national medals for purposes of chapter 
#ea of title #ca1 ,united ,states ,code4