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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.
Summary
This act prohibits the Secretary of State from issuing passports, passport cards, or Consular Reports of Birth Abroad that include the unspecified (X) gender designation. The bill requires that applications for these documents offer only male and female as gender designation options. The Secretary of State is prohibited from issuing any of these documents that contain the (X) gender marker.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21] (R-TX)
1 cosponsor
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Chip Roy’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $112,464
- SBG $13,200
- HUFFINES COMMUNITIES $10,250
- Q2 BANKING $9,900
- WOODFOREST FINANCIAL GROUP $8,700
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Actions (2)
- Feb 7, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. · house
- Feb 7, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 7, 2025
Mr. Roy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
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. <all>
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