Sec. 3. Congressional gold medal
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrangements for the award, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appropriate design in honor of World War II Army and Navy Nurse Corps members, in recognition of the critical military service and devotion to duty of those nurses. For purposes of the award described in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Treasury (referred to in this Act as the Secretary ) shall strike the gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the Secretary.
Following the award of the gold medal under subsection (a), the gold medal shall be given to the Smithsonian Institution, where it shall be available for display as appropriate and made available for research. It is the sense of Congress that the Smithsonian Institution should make the gold medal received under paragraph
(1)available for display elsewhere, particularly at— appropriate locations associated with the Army and Navy Nurse Corps of World War II, including— the U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence; the Women in Military Service for America Memorial; the U.S. Army Women’s Museum; the National Naval Medical Centers; and the National World War II Museum; and any other location determined appropriate by the Smithsonian Institution.