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H.R. 1931, The Catherine Skivers Currency for All Act (2 comments ↓)
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H.R. 1931 would amend the Federal Reserve Act to require the production of Federal reserve notes in a manner which enables an individual who is blind to determine the denomination of each such note.
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Kathryn Swanson
February 24, 2008, 9:55pm (report abuse)Currently this bill offers the best solution to this problem but may be difficult to raise money to complete. It is less expensive then to place braille in each cornor
Martin
July 31, 2008, 8:42pm (report abuse)I'm not sure if this scenario is too out there, but assume this went into effect. Blind individuals would begin to rely solely on these indicators to determine the value of the currency. Then some person could easily modify any bill to swindle a blind person. I'm not thinking this would be common, but probably about as often as blind people are being cheated now.