Paul Laurence Dunbar Commemorative Coin Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] [Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8227 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8227 To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint commemorative coins in recognition of Paul Laurence Dunbar. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 9, 2026 Ms. Norton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint commemorative coins in recognition of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Paul Laurence Dunbar Commemorative Coin Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. The Congress finds that-- (1) Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first influential African-American poets in American literature, writing such classics as ``Majors and Minors'' and ``Lyrics of Lowly Life'', and composing the lyrics to ``In Dahomey'', the first all- African-American m…