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H.R. 3074119th CongressFinance and Financial Sector
Common Cents Act
Sponsored by Rep. Lisa C. McClain (R-MI) · 1 active : 1 Democrat
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate8 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedJul 14, 2026
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govCommon Cents Act
This bill generally ends the production of the penny and requires rounding to the nearest amount divisible by five for the payment or transfer of cash.
The Department of the Treasury must stop producing the penny, except to meet collector needs. The penny shall continue to be legal tender.
Any person selling goods or services in a cash transaction, entering into other transfers of cash, or paying cash wages to an employee must round the payment up or down in accordance with the bill.
The bill takes effect one year after the date of enactment.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Financial Services · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Consumer affairs
- Currency
- Monetary policy
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 8Swing 70–100
- 73Middle 30–70
- 19Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
1 activeShow all 1 cosponsors
- Robert Garcia (D-CA-42)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
