H.R. 3074 · 119th Congress · Finance and financial sector
Common Cents Act
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Jul 14, 2026
Passed by voice vote.
Passed the House on July 14, 2026.
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- IntroducedApr 29, 2025
- CommitteeSep 4, 2025
- Passed HouseJul 14, 2026
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 1
- all Democrat
- Committees
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsHouse Committee on Financial Services
- Lobbying
- At least 31
- organizations named it2025 Q2 to 2026 Q3
What it 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.
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.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 31 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 112 quarterly reports filed by 10 lobbying firms and by 23 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a 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; Food Marketplace Inc; National Automatic Merchandising Association; Walmart Inc. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 26 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
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, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.