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Calendar No. 513 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 995 
[Report No. 115–300] 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
NOVEMBER 29, 2017 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources 
JULY 12, 2018 
Reported by Ms. MURKOWSKI, with amendments and an amendment to the 
title 
[Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic] 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary 
of the Interior to modernize terms in certain regulations. 
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 ‘‘21st Century Respect 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS REQUIRED. 
(a) SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.—The Secretary 
of Agriculture shall amend section 1901.202 of title 7, 
Code of Federal Regulations, for purposes of— 
(1) replacing the reference to the term ‘‘Negro 
or Black’’ with ‘‘Black or African American’’; 
(2) replacing the reference to the term ‘‘Span-
ish Surname’’ with ‘‘Hispanic’’; and 
(3) replacing the reference to the term ‘‘Ori-
ental’’ with ‘‘Asian American or Pacific Islander’’. 
(b) SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.—The Secretary 
of the Interior shall amend section 906.2 of title 36, Code 
of Federal Regulations, for purposes of— 
(b) ADMINISTRATOR
OF GENERAL SERVICES.—The 
Administrator of General Services shall amend section 
906.2 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, for purposes 
of— 
(1) replacing the references to the term 
‘‘Negro’’ with ‘‘Black or African American’’; 
(2) replacing the definition of ‘‘Negro’’ with the 
definition of ‘‘Black or African American’’ as ‘‘a per-
son an individual having origins in any of the Black 
racial groups of Africa’’; 
(3) replacing the references to the term ‘‘Ori-
ental’’ with ‘‘Asian American or Pacific Islander’’; 
and 
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(4) replacing the references to the terms ‘‘Es-
kimo’’ and ‘‘Aleut’’ with ‘‘Alaska Native’’. 
SEC. 3. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this Act, or the amendments required by 
this Act, shall be construed to affect Federal law, except 
with respect to the use of terms by the Secretary of Agri-
culture and the Secretary of the Interior Administrator 
of General Services, respectively, to the regulations af-
fected by this Act. 
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘An Act to direct the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Administrator of Gen-
eral Services to modernize terms in certain regulations.’’. 
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Calendar No. 513 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 995 
[Report No. 115–300] 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Sec-
retary of the Interior to modernize terms in cer-
tain regulations. 
JULY 12, 2018 
Reported with amendments and an amendment to the 
title 
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