Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 192.
The bill amends 31 U.S.C. 5112 to revise specifications for the 5-cent coin, authorize alternate zinc-nickel compositions to reduce production cost, and require the Secretary of the Treasury to cease producing one-cent coins for general circulation (while allowing numismatic sales). It preserves existing pennies as legal tender.
Progressive worried rounding will harm low-income cash users
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a substantive amendment to coinage law that clearly mandates cessation of general-circulation one-cent minting and authorizes specific composition options for the 5-cent coin, but it provides limited implementation scaffolding beyond the statutory commands.
The bill amends 31 U.S.C. 5112 to revise specifications for the 5-cent coin, authorize alternate zinc-nickel compositions to reduce production cost, and require the Secretary of the Treasury to cease producing one-cent coins for general circulation (while allowing numismatic sales).
It preserves existing pennies as legal tender.
The bill text does not itself include a statutory rule requiring cash transactions to be rounded to five-cent increments, despite that policy being described in the bill title/context.
Content is a low-cost administrative tweak that often attracts bipartisan votes, but symbolic resistance and procedural hurdles in the Senate lower probability.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a substantive amendment to coinage law that clearly mandates cessation of general-circulation one-cent minting and authorizes specific composition options for the 5-cent coin, but it provides limited implementation scaffolding beyond the statutory commands.
Progressive worried rounding will harm low-income cash users
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressive worried rounding will harm low-income cash users
Likely supportive of ending routine penny production as wasteful and regressive.
Concerned about the real-world effects of any rounding policy absent consumer protections and wants explicit safeguards for low-income cash users.
Generally favorable as a practical, cost-saving modernization while wanting careful implementation.
Will insist on studies, clear rules, and a phased transition to avoid disruption and hidden costs.
Likely supportive of ending penny production as reducing wasteful government spending.
Opposed to heavy-handed mandates on pricing or forced rounding; prefers limited, market-based implementation.
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Content is a low-cost administrative tweak that often attracts bipartisan votes, but symbolic resistance and procedural hurdles in the Senate lower probability.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressive worried rounding will harm low-income cash users
Content is a low-cost administrative tweak that often attracts bipartisan votes, but symbolic resistance and procedural hurdles in the Sena…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a substantive amendment to coinage law that clearly mandates cessation of general-circulation one-cent minting and authorizes specific composition options for the…
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