What a yes vote endorsed
Common Cents Act
What this does
The bill directs the Secretary of the Treasury to stop minting one-cent coins for general circulation, though the Treasury may still produce pennies for sale to collectors and pennies already minted stay legal tender. It permits, but does not require, cash transactions to be rounded to the nearest five cents, with set rules for which ending amounts round up and which round down. Rounding does not apply to payments made by card, check, or electronic transfer. The bill also lets the Treasury prescribe a cheaper metal composition for the five-cent coin and directs the Federal Reserve to report on keeping penny distribution stable during the transition.
Passed the House by voice vote
How we know · 8 sourced claims
- The bill directs the Secretary of the Treasury to stop minting one-cent coins for general circulation.Source: Sec. 2 (new 31 U.S.C. 5112(bb)(1))
- The Treasury may still produce pennies for sale to collectors as numismatic items.Source: Sec. 2 (new 31 U.S.C. 5112(bb)(1))
- Pennies already minted before enactment remain legal tender.Source: Sec. 2 (new 31 U.S.C. 5112(bb)(2))
- The bill permits, but does not require, cash transactions to be rounded to the nearest five cents.Source: Sec. 3(a) and Sec. 3(e)
- Rounding does not apply to payments made by card, check, or electronic transfer.Source: Sec. 3(d)
- The bill lets the Treasury prescribe a cheaper metal composition for the five-cent coin.Source: Sec. 2 (new 31 U.S.C. 5112(c)(2))
- The bill directs the Federal Reserve to report on keeping penny distribution stable during the transition.Source: Sec. 5
- It is a single-subject measure centered on retiring the one-cent coin.Source: Sec. 1 through Sec. 6
Reported lobbying
At least
33
organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing.
A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 99 quarterly reports filed by 34 registered lobbying firms in 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so an organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
14 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its Senate companion, S 1525, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. They carry no per-bill dollar figure and no position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking
- JARDEN ZINC PRODUCTS
- UNITED STEEL PAPER & FORESTRY RUBBER MANUFACTURING ENERGY
- NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION
- FOOD MARKETPLACE INC
- NATIONAL AUTOMATIC MERCHANDISING ASSOCIATION
Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 28 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: the extract keeps five names per measure and no ranking is available.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.