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Rep. Kean, Thomas H. [R-NJ-7] · R–NJ
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Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2026-09-10 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This bill would honor SEAL Team Six with a single Congressional Gold Medal for its role in defeating Osama bin Laden. The medal would go to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for display and research after the award. Participating team members and related staff, as determined by the Secretary of Defense, would receive individual bronze medals. The Treasury could also sell bronze copies at prices covering their production costs.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the award, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design to the members of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (commonly referred to as SEAL Team Six), in recognition of their critical role in defeating Osama bin Laden in the fight against terrorism.
Following the award of the gold medal under subsection (a), the medal shall be given to the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution, where it shall be available for display as appropriate and made available for research.
The Secretary of the Treasury may strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medal struck under section 3, at a price sufficient to cover the costs thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall give a bronze medal described in subsection (a) to each member of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group and related staff who participated in defeating Osama bin Laden, as determined by the Secretary of Defense.
Section 1 names the proposal the SEAL Team Six Congressional Gold Medal Act. Section 2 presents Congress’s stated reasons for the honor, including the team’s 2011 raid and the collection of intelligence. These are the bill’s findings, including its assessment of the mission’s benefits.
This Act may be cited as the SEAL Team Six Congressional Gold Medal Act.
Congress finds the following:
(4) In 2011, SEAL Team Six carried out a surgical raid on the compound where Osama bin Laden was in hiding, a mission dubbed Operation Neptune Spear.
(8) Due to SEAL Team Six’s success, critical intelligence about bin Laden and al-Qaeda was collected, allowing the United States to further the campaign against terrorism.
The Speaker of the House and the Senate’s president pro tempore would be required to arrange the award on Congress’s behalf. The Treasury Secretary would be required to produce the gold medal and choose its symbols and inscriptions.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the award, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design to the members of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (commonly referred to as SEAL Team Six), in recognition of their critical role in defeating Osama bin Laden in the fight against terrorism.
the Secretary of the Treasury (referred to in this Act as the Secretary) shall strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the Secretary.
After the award, the gold medal would have to be transferred to the National Museum of American History and made available for research and appropriate display. Congress would also express a nonbinding preference for displays elsewhere, especially at appropriate locations associated with SEAL Team Six.
Following the award of the gold medal under subsection (a), the medal shall be given to the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution, where it shall be available for display as appropriate and made available for research.
It is the sense of Congress that the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution should make the gold medal received under paragraph (1) available for display elsewhere, particularly at other appropriate locations associated with SEAL Team Six.
The Treasury Secretary could produce and sell bronze copies. Sale prices would have to cover costs, including labor, materials, stamping tools, machinery use, and overhead.
The Secretary of the Treasury may strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medal struck under section 3, at a price sufficient to cover the costs thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses.
Separately from the authority to sell copies, the Treasury Secretary would be required to give a bronze medal to each participating SEAL Team Six member and related staff member. The Secretary of Defense would determine who participated in defeating Osama bin Laden.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall give a bronze medal described in subsection (a) to each member of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group and related staff who participated in defeating Osama bin Laden, as determined by the Secretary of Defense.
The bill would classify its medals as national medals under chapter 51 of title 31 of the United States Code. It would also treat them as numismatic items—items associated with coin and medal collecting—for purposes of sections 5134 and 5136.
Medals struck under this Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code.
For purposes of sections 5134 and 5136 of title 31, United States Code, all medals struck under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic items.
The bill would authorize charging the medals’ costs to the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund, using whatever amounts are necessary rather than specifying a dollar amount. This is authority to cover costs, not evidence of money already spent.
There is authorized to be charged against the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund such amounts as may be necessary to pay for the costs of the medals struck under this Act.
Money received from selling duplicate bronze medals would have to be deposited into the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund.
Amounts received from the sale of duplicate bronze medals authorized under section 4 shall be deposited into the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund.
The supplied official-actions snapshot, updated September 22, 2026, records introduction in the House on September 10, 2026, and referral that day to the Financial Services and House Administration committees for provisions within their respective jurisdictions. This snapshot does not establish subsequent passage or enactment.
Source snapshot updated 2026-09-22T20:49:50Z.
2026-09-10: Introduced in House
2026-09-10: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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