1. Short title This Act may be cited as the United States Coast Guard Commemorative Coin Act of 2017 . 2. Findings The Congress finds that— (1) the United States Coast Guard was founded on August 4, 1790, as the Revenue Cutter Service under the United States Department of the Treasury; (2) Congress created the Coast Guard on January 28, 1915, by merging the Revenue Cutter Service and the United States Lifesaving Service, which was moved to the Department of Transportation in 1967, and on February 25, 2003, became part of the Department of Homeland Security; (3) although the smallest of the uniformed services, today the United States Coast Guard conducts a wide variety of missions to protect the public, the environment, and the United States economic and security interests in any maritime region, including international waters and coasts, ports, and inland waterways in the United States; (4) every day, the United States Coast Guard plays a broad and important role in homeland security, law enforcement, search and rescue, marine environmental pollution response, and the maintenance of river, intracoastal, and offshore aids to navigation; (5) the United States Coast Guard is the oldest seagoing military service in the United States, staying true to their motto, Semper Paratus or Always Ready , for 225 years; (6) the United States Coast Guard is supported by over 50,000 active duty, reserve, and civilian personnel, who in 2015 responded to 16,400 search and rescue cases saving 3,500 lives, conducted 20,775 waterborne patrols of critical maritime infrastructure, escorted over 1,955 high-capacity passenger vessels, conducted nearly 8,600 security boardings in and around U.S. ports, removed $4,900,000,000 worth of illegal drugs, interdicted 6,000 undocumented migrants attempting to illegally enter the United States, and maintained 47,000 navigation aids that support $3,200,000,000,000 in economic activity on the waterways of the United States