This bill authorizes Congress to award a Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to Lance Corporal Dustin Sekula, a Marine from Edinburg, Texas, who was killed in combat in Iraq on April 1, 2004, at age 18. Sekula was the first Edinburg native to die during Operation Iraqi Freedom and is remembered for turning down an agriculture scholarship to enlist in the Marines at age 17. The medal will be presented to his family by the Speaker of the House and President pro tempore of the Senate, with the design and striking of the medal to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. The bill also allows the Treasury Department to produce and sell duplicate bronze medals to cover the costs of creating the gold medal, with any proceeds going back into the U.S. Mint Public Enterprise Fund. No specific funding amount or timeline is specified in the legislation.
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