[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3924 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3924

 To prohibit the Secretary of State from issuing a passport, passport 
card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad that includes the unspecified 
            (X) gender designation, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 7, 2023

Mr. Roy (for himself, Mr. Brecheen, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Norman, and 
  Mr. Posey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Secretary of State from issuing a passport, passport 
card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad that includes the unspecified 
            (X) gender designation, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Passport Sanity Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION REGARDING CERTAIN GENDER DESIGNATION ON PASSPORTS, 
              PASSPORT CARDS, AND CONSULAR REPORTS OF BIRTH ABROAD 
              ISSUED BY DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of State shall--
            (1) ensure each application for a covered document includes 
        only the gender designations male and female; and
            (2) prohibit the issuing of a covered document that 
        includes the unspecified (X) gender designation.
    (b) Covered Document Defined.--In this section, the term ``covered 
document'' means a passport, passport card, or Consular Report of Birth 
Abroad issued by the Department of State.
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