Some of the medals covered under this bill will soon be 50 years old, and at that point you will have to ask whether they fall under the new law that will be passed as a result of this bill or under the cultural property act. The proposed amendment here would assure that the modern medals were covered under the legislation that would be passed as a result of the bill. Up until the point they were 50 years old, they would be governed by its provisions. Once they were 50 years old, they would fall under the existing provisions of the Cultural Property Export and Import Act, and that would solve the problem of the missing seven years for medals between 1967--
