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Rep. Sherrill, Mikie [D-NJ-11] · D–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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PlainBill explanation
Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-03-11 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 members of the Red Cross recreation program known as the Donut Dollies who served honorably during the Vietnam conflict with a Congressional Gold Medal. The medal would go to the Smithsonian for display and research. The Treasury could also make and sell bronze copies at prices covering their costs. These are proposed provisions, not evidence of an enacted award.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of the Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design in commemoration to members of the Red Cross Supplemental Recreational Activities Overseas (SRAO) program, also known as the Donut Dollies, who served honorably during the Vietnam conflict.
Following the award of the gold medal under subsection (a), the gold medal shall be given to the Smithsonian Institution, where it shall be available for display as appropriate and made available for research.
The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to section 3, at a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses.
Section 1 would name the legislation the Donut Dollies Congressional Gold Medal Act.
This Act may be cited as Donut Dollies Congressional Gold Medal Act.
The bill’s findings describe the volunteers’ frontline support for servicemembers and their exposure to wartime dangers as reasons for official recognition. These are statements made in the proposed legislation.
These Red Cross volunteers shared with military personnel the hardship and privation of life in a war zone and were subject to the dangers of war.
The Donut Dollies volunteered to be sent to the frontlines to support servicemembers directly engaged with the enemy during the Vietnam conflict. The extraordinary efforts of these volunteers throughout the extent of America’s involvement in the Vietnam conflict is deserving of official recognition.
The House Speaker and the Senate’s president pro tempore would have to arrange presentation of a single gold medal honoring the qualifying program members collectively. The Treasury Secretary would have to produce it and choose its design and inscriptions.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of the Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design in commemoration to members of the Red Cross Supplemental Recreational Activities Overseas (SRAO) program, also known as the Donut Dollies, who served honorably during the Vietnam conflict.
the Secretary of the Treasury (hereafter in this Act referred to as the Secretary) shall strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the Secretary.
After presentation, the medal would have to be given to the Smithsonian and made available for research and appropriate display. A separate statement of Congress’s preference would encourage display at other suitable locations, particularly those associated with the Donut Dollies; it would not require those outside displays.
Following the award of the gold medal under subsection (a), the gold medal shall be given to 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 Smithsonian Institution should make the gold medal received under paragraph (1) available for display elsewhere, particularly at other appropriate locations associated with the Donut Dollies.
The bill would express Congress’s preference that the United States Mint produce the medal promptly. This statement does not set a binding production deadline.
It is the sense of the Congress that the United States Mint should expedite production of the gold medal under this Act, so that the service and sacrifice of Donut Dollies volunteers can be recognized and honored in a timely manner.
The Treasury Secretary could, but would not have to, produce and sell bronze copies. Their price would have to cover costs, including labor, materials, the tools used to stamp the medals, machinery use, and overhead.
The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to section 3, at a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses.
The bill would classify the medals as national medals under the cited federal law and as numismatic items—items associated with coin and medal collecting—for two specified provisions of that law.
The medals struck pursuant to 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’ necessary costs to the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund without specifying a dollar amount. Revenue from selling bronze copies would have to be deposited into that same fund.
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.
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 November 18, 2025, records introduction in the House on March 11, 2025, and referral that day to the Financial Services and House Administration committees for provisions within their respective jurisdictions.
Source snapshot updated 2025-11-18T09:05:50Z.
2025-03-11: Introduced in House
2025-03-11: 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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Reviewed version: Introduced in House · 2025-03-11. These findings describe provisions and who may benefit; they are not judgments of waste, corruption, or motive.
This review covers the supplied bill text. “None identified” does not rule out provisions in later versions or accompanying reports and disclosures.
Provisions outside the bill’s main subject, or policy changes attached to appropriations.
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Spending directed to particular recipients or places outside ordinary competitive or formula-based allocation.
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Narrow exceptions, exemptions, or preferential treatment that warrant a closer look.
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