H.R. 1976 — Woman on the Twenty Act of 2025

This section sets forth congressional findings on the history of U.S. paper currency, including its adoption in 1875, production by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing since 1877, and issuance of Federal Reserve notes since 1913. It lists portraits on current denominations ($1 through $100) and discontinued higher denominations ($500 through $100,000); notes that no woman has appeared on paper money in general circulation; and references the 2016 Treasury announcement to feature Harriet Tubman on the $20 note, with the $10 note reverse depicting suffrage leaders (Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul) and the $5 note reverse showing figures at the Lincoln Memorial (Marian Anderson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr.).

This section requires that no $20 note be printed after December 31, 2028, without prominently featuring a portrait of Harriet Tubman on the front face. It also directs the Secretary of the Treasury to release to the public a preliminary design of such a note no later than December 31, 2026.