I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6432 
To prohibit the use of funds to implement, administer, or enforce measures 
requiring certain employees to refer to an individual by the preferred 
pronouns of such individual or a name other than the legal name of 
such individual, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 15, 2023 
Mr. OGLES (for himself, Ms. BOEBERT, Mr. LAMALFA, Mrs. MILLER of Illi-
nois, Mr. BIGGS, Mr. HARRIS, Mr. GOSAR, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. 
CRANE, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. CLYDE, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mr. COL-
LINS, Mr. ROSENDALE, and Mr. DUNCAN) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability 
A BILL 
To prohibit the use of funds to implement, administer, or 
enforce measures requiring certain employees to refer 
to an individual by the preferred pronouns of such indi-
vidual or a name other than the legal name of such 
individual, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safeguarding Honest 
Speech Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. NO FEDERAL FUNDS FOR COMPELLED LANGUAGE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, no funds may be used for the purpose of im-
plementing, administering, or enforcing any rule, policy, 
guidance, recommendation, or memoranda requiring an 
employee or contractor of any Federal agency or Depart-
ment to use— 
(1) another person’s preferred pronouns if they 
are incompatible with such a person’s sex; or 
(2) a name other than a person’s legal name 
when referring to such a person. 
(b) ENFORCEMENT.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—All Federal agencies and 
Departments shall ensure that, not later than 30 
days following a written notice from any employee or 
contractor regarding an alleged violation of sub-
section (a), a formal response to the notice is issued 
to the employee or contractor. 
(2) PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION.—In the case 
that the formal response in subsection (a) does not 
represent a satisfactory outcome for a federal em-
ployee or contractor, any employee or contractor ag-
grieved by a violation of subsection (a) may com-
mence a civil action against the Federal agency or 
Department responsible for the alleged violation. 
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(3) RELIEF.—In any action under this sub-
section, the court may award appropriate relief, in-
cluding— 
(A) temporary, preliminary, or permanent 
injunctive relief; 
(B) compensatory damages; 
(C) punitive or exemplary damages, which 
may not exceed $100,000; and 
(D) reasonable fees for attorneys. 
(4) STATUTE
OF
LIMITATIONS.—An action 
under this subsection shall be brought not later than 
one year after the date on which the alleged viola-
tion of subsection (a) occurred. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) SEX.—The term ‘‘sex’’ means sex recog-
nized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology 
and genetics at birth. 
(2) PERSON.—The term ‘‘person’’ means an in-
dividual. 
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