1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Chinese American World War II Veterans Congressional Gold Medal Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Chinese Americans served the United States in every conflict since the Civil War, and distinguished themselves in World War II, serving in every theater of battle and every branch of service, earning citations for their heroism and honorable service, up to and including the Congressional Medal of Honor. (2) Chinese nationals and Chinese Americans faced institutional discrimination in the United States since before World War II, limiting the size of their population and their ability to build thriving communities in America. (3) The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the first Federal law that broadly restricted immigration and a specific nationality, making it illegal for Chinese laborers to immigrate to the United States, and limiting the Chinese population in America for over sixty years. (4) Major court decisions such as the decisions in Lum v. Rice and People v. Hall found yellow races to be equal to African Americans with regard to separate but equal school facilities, and prohibited Chinese Americans, along with Black, mulatto, or Indian persons, from testifying against White men. (5) Chinese Americans were harassed, beaten, and murdered because of their ethnicity. The worst instances include the Chinese Massacre of 1871, where 17 Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, California, were tortured and murdered; the Rock Spring Massacre of 1885 where White rioters killed 28 Chinese miners and burned 75 of their homes in Rock Springs, Wyoming