text: SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
  
      The Congress finds the following:
              (1) As a Member of Congress from the Tenth Congressional 
          District of Texas, as Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate, Vice-
          President and President of the United States, Lyndon Baines 
          Johnson's accomplishments in the fields of civil rights, 
          education, and economic opportunity rank among the greatest 
          achievements of the past half century.
              (2) As President, Lyndon Johnson proposed, championed, led 
          to passage, and signed into law on August 6, 1965, the Voting 
          Rights Act of 1965, which swept away barriers impeding millions 
          of Americans from meaningful participation in American 
          political life.
              (3) On July 30, 1965, President Johnson signed into law the 
          Social Security Amendments Act of 1965, popularly known as 
          Medicare, which has transformed the delivery of health care in 
          the United States and which, along with Social Security, 
          reduced the rate of poverty among the elderly from 28.5 percent 
          in 1966 to 9.1 percent in 2012.
              (4) On July 2, 1964, President Johnson secured passage and 
          signed into law the most sweeping civil rights legislation 
          since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which 
          prohibits discrimination in employment, education, and public 
          accommodations based on race, color, religion, or national 
          origin.
              (5) On November 8, 1965, President Johnson signed into law 
          the Higher Education Act, which provided need-based financial 
          aid to students in the form of scholarships, work-study grants, 
          and loans, and thus made higher education more accessible to 
          populations of persons who were previously unable to attend 
          college because of economic circumstances.
              (6) On October 3, 1965, President Johnson signed into law 
          the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, which 
          transformed the Nation's immigration system by abolishing the 
          racially based quota system that had defined American 
          immigration policy for four decades and replaced it with a 
          policy whose central purpose was family reunification, with a 
          preference for immigrants with specific skill sets.
              (7) According to Robert A. Caro, the preeminent biographer 
          of Lyndon Baines Johnson, with the single exception of Lincoln, 
          President Johnson was the greatest champion of the poor and 
          underprivileged in the history of the Republic and was the 
          President ``who wrote mercy and justice into the statute books 
          by which America was governed''.
  
  SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL.
  
      (a) Presentation Authorized.--The Speaker of the House of 
  Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make 
  appropriate arrangements for the posthumous award, on behalf of 
  Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design to Lyndon Baines 
  Johnson in recognition of his contributions to the Nation, including 
  passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Social Security 
  Amendments Act (Medicare) of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the 
  Higher Education Act of 1965, and the Immigration and Naturalization 
  Act of 1965.
      (b) Design and Striking.--For purposes of the presentation referred 
  to in subsection (a), 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.
      (c) Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.--
              (1) In general.--Following the award of the gold medal 
          under subsection (a), the gold medal shall be given to the 
          Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, where it will be 
          available for display as appropriate and available for 
          research.
              (2) Sense of congress.--It is the sense of the Congress 
          that the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum should make 
          the gold medal awarded pursuant to this Act available for 
          display elsewhere, particularly at appropriate locations 
          associated with Lyndon Baines Johnson.
  
  SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS.
  
      The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in bronze of the gold 
  medal struck pursuant to section 2 under such regulations as the 
  Secretary may prescribe, at a price sufficient to cover the cost 
  thereof, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and 
  overhead expenses, and the cost of the gold medal.
  
  SEC. 4. STATUS OF MEDALS.
  
      (a) National Medals.--The medals struck pursuant to this Act are 
  national medals for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States 
  Code.
      (b) Numismatic Items.--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.
target: This bill directs the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the posthumous award of a Congressional Gold Medal to Lyndon Baines Johnson in recognition of his contributions to the nation, including passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Social Security Amendments Act (Medicare) of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Higher Education Act of 1965, and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. Requires such medal to be given to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum following its award, where it will be available for display and research. 
feat_title: To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States whose visionary leadership secured passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, Social Security Amendments Act (Medicare) of 1965, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Higher Education Act of 1965, and Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965.