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[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3285 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 291
117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3285

                          [Report No. 117-380]

 To amend gendered terms in Federal law relating to the President and 
                        the President's spouse.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 2021

  Mr. Pocan (for himself, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Doggett, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. 
  Espaillat, Ms. Jackson Lee, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Levin of Michigan, Mr. 
  Lowenthal, Ms. Norton, Mr. Pappas, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. 
Speier, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Welch) introduced the following bill; which 
             was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

                             June 21, 2022

     Additional sponsors: Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Payne, Mr. 
 Auchincloss, Mr. Soto, Mr. Jones, Mr. Carson, Mr. Torres of New York, 
Mr. Grijalva, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. Case, Mr. Tonko, 
    Mr. Carbajal, Ms. Stansbury, Ms. Davids of Kansas, Ms. Chu, Mr. 
Moulton, Mrs. Dingell, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. 
    Barragan, Mr. Rush, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Ms. 
   Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Takano, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Lois Frankel of 
   Florida, Mr. Pallone, Ms. Scanlon, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Williams of 
 Georgia, Ms. Craig, Ms. Titus, Mr. Crow, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of 
           New York, Mr. Lynch, and Ms. Jacobs of California

                             June 21, 2022

    Reported from the Committee on the Judiciary; committed to the 
 Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to 
                               be printed

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 
 To amend gendered terms in Federal law relating to the President and 
                        the President's spouse.

 

    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 ``21st Century President Act''.

SEC. 2. MODERNIZATION OF TERMS RELATING TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE SPOUSE 
              OF A PRESIDENT.

    Section 879(b)(1)(A) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``the wife of a former President during his lifetime, the 
widow of a former President until her death or remarriage'' and 
inserting ``the spouse of a former President during a former 
President's lifetime, the surviving spouse of a former President until 
the surviving spouse's death or remarriage''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 291

117th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 3285

                          [Report No. 117-380]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To amend gendered terms in Federal law relating to the President and 
                        the President's spouse.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             June 21, 2022

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
                       and ordered to be printed
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