Currency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings Act of 2017

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] 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.…