Freedom House Ambulance Service Congressional Gold Medal Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Freedom House Ambulance Service Congressional Gold Medal Act directs congressional leaders to arrange presentation of a single gold medal commemorating Freedom House Ambulance Service for its service to Pittsburgh and contributions to emergency medical services. The Treasury Secretary must design and strike the medal.
After the award, the single gold medal goes to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture for appropriate display and research. Congress expresses a nonbinding view that the museum should make the medal available for display elsewhere, particularly at locations associated with Freedom House. The museum is not legally required to lend it.
The Treasury Secretary may strike and sell bronze duplicates. Their price must cover labor, materials, dies, machinery, overhead, and other production costs. The measure treats the gold medal as a national medal and all medals made under the Act as numismatic items.
Necessary production costs may be charged to the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund, and proceeds from duplicate sales return to that fund. The bill does not make a cash award to former members or relatives, does not provide each person a medal, and does not draw a stated appropriation from the general Treasury. Only one gold medal is required.
Congressional findings recount Freedom House's pioneering advanced paramedic training, service to Pittsburgh's predominantly Black Hill District, employment of residents excluded from other opportunities, influence on national EMS standards, and closure after political opposition and racial tension. Those findings supply the basis for recognition but create no separate program or entitlement.
Who Benefits and How
Freedom House Ambulance Service and its surviving members receive national recognition. The Pittsburgh community and emergency medical services profession gain public commemoration. The museum receives a historically significant research and display object. Researchers, visitors, collectors, and associated institutions gain access to the medal or cost-recovery duplicates.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Mint Public Enterprise Fund pays upfront design and production costs, while Mint staff perform design, procurement, striking, sales, and accounting work. The museum must preserve, display, and support research access to the gold medal. Bronze purchasers pay full production cost, and no individual receives direct compensation or an individual gold medal.
Key Provisions
- Awards one Congressional Gold Medal.
- Commemorates Freedom House Ambulance Service.
- Requires Treasury to design and strike the medal.
- Transfers the medal to the national African American history museum.
- Requires museum availability for display and research.
- Encourages traveling display through a nonbinding sense of Congress.
- Authorizes bronze duplicate production.
- Requires bronze prices to recover production costs.
- Classifies the gold medal as a national medal.
- Classifies all produced medals as numismatic items.
- Authorizes Mint Public Enterprise Fund payments.
- Returns bronze-sale proceeds to the Mint fund.
- Provides no direct cash award.
- Creates no individual medal entitlement.
- Establishes no general-fund appropriation.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Awards one Congressional Gold Medal commemorating Freedom House Ambulance Service, directs Treasury to strike it and transfer it to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, permits cost-recovery sales of bronze duplicates, classifies the medals as national numismatic items, and finances production through the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund.
Key Policy Areas
Congressional Gold Medals, Emergency Medical Services History, African American History, Smithsonian Collections, United States Mint Finance
Primary Purpose
Awards one Congressional Gold Medal commemorating Freedom House Ambulance Service, directs Treasury to strike it and transfer it to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, permits cost-recovery sales of bronze duplicates, classifies the medals as national numismatic items, and finances production through the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund.
Policy Domains
Sections 2 through 6 findings, single gold-medal award, Treasury production, Smithsonian custody, nonbinding traveling-display preference, bronze duplicate sales, numismatic status, and Mint fund financing
Identified Gains
- Freedom House Ambulance Service
- Surviving Freedom House members
- Pittsburgh Hill District residents
- Emergency medical services professionals
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- African American history researchers
- Museum visitors viewing the medal
- Bronze medal collectors
Identified Costs
- United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund
- United States Mint production staff
- Treasury medal design staff
- Smithsonian collections staff
- Bronze medal purchasers
- Honorees receiving no direct compensation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition …
Introduced in House
Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania (for herself, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Freedom House commemoration program, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Treasury accounting staff
United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund faces effects in multiple directions
Positive-direction: Freedom House commemoration program
Negative-direction: Treasury accounting staff, Treasury medal design staff, United States Mint production staff
Emergency medical services professionals, Freedom House Ambulance Service, Honorees receiving no direct compensation
Museum visitors viewing the medal, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian collections staff
Positive-direction: Museum visitors viewing the medal, National Museum of African American History and Culture
Negative-direction: Smithsonian collections staff
Pittsburgh Hill District residents
African American history researchers
Bronze medal collectors, Bronze medal purchasers
Positive-direction: Bronze medal collectors
Negative-direction: Bronze medal purchasers
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "mint"
- → United States Mint financing production and receiving sale proceeds
- "museum"
- → National Museum of African American History and Culture receiving the gold medal
- "honoree"
- → Freedom House Ambulance Service as the commemorated organization
- "purchaser"
- → Collector buying a bronze duplicate
- "secretary"
- → Treasury Secretary designing and striking medals
- "congressional_leader"
- → Speaker or President pro tempore arranging presentation
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Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
The revolving fund authorized to pay necessary medal costs and receive proceeds from bronze duplicate sales.
The one Congressional Gold Medal struck for presentation and later transferred to the national African American history museum.
An optional reproduction sold at a price sufficient to recover all listed production costs.
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