[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3011 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3011

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 4, 2023

   Mr. Vance (for himself, Mr. Cassidy, and Mr. Budd) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                           Foreign Relations

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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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