To save taxpayers money by improving the manufacturing and distribution of coins and notes, and for other purposes.
Currency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings Act of 2017
This bill directs the Government Accountability Office to study the production cost of the one-cent coin and ways the production cost could be lowered while maintaining the utility of the coin.
The bill provides for the replacement of $1 notes with $1 coins as the only $1 monetary unit in circulation. Treasury will no longer be authorized to issue $1 notes two years after passage of this bill and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall ensure that all $1 Federal Reserve notes are destroyed within this time.
Notwithstanding this bill, $1 Federal Reserve notes shall remain legal tender in the United States.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
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