I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3785 
To prohibit Executive agencies from using the derogatory term ‘‘alien’’ to 
refer to an individual who is not a citizen or national of the United 
States, to amend chapter 1 of title 1, United States Code, to establish 
a uniform definition for the term ‘‘foreign national’’, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 21, 2015 
Mr. CASTRO of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Over-
sight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To prohibit Executive agencies from using the derogatory 
term ‘‘alien’’ to refer to an individual who is not a 
citizen or national of the United States, to amend chap-
ter 1 of title 1, United States Code, to establish a 
uniform definition for the term ‘‘foreign national’’, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Correcting Hurtful and 
Alienating Names in Government Expression (CHANGE) 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. MODERNIZATION OF LANGUAGE REFERRING TO IN-
DIVIDUALS WHO ARE NOT CITIZENS OR NA-
TIONALS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
An Executive agency (as defined in section 105 of 
title 5, United States Code) shall not use the following 
terms in any proposed or final rule, regulation, interpreta-
tion, publication, other document, display, or sign issued 
by the agency after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
except to the extent that the term is used in quoting or 
reproducing text written by a source other than an officer 
(as defined in section 2104 of title 5, United States Code) 
or employee (as defined in section 2105 of title 5, United 
States Code) of the agency: 
(1) The term ‘‘alien’’, when used to refer to an 
individual who is not a citizen or national of the 
United States. 
(2) The term ‘‘illegal alien’’ when used to refer 
to an individual who is unlawfully present in the 
United States or who lacks a lawful immigration 
status in the United States. 
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section heading by striking ‘‘ILLEGAL ALIENS’’ and 
inserting ‘‘UNDOCUMENTED FOREIGN NATIONALS’’. 
(9) Section 106(e) of the Public Works Employ-
ment Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6705(e)) is amended 
in the subsection heading by striking ‘‘ILLEGAL 
ALIENS’’ and inserting ‘‘UNDOCUMENTED FOREIGN 
NATIONALS’’. 
(10) Section 40125(a)(2) of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘illegal aliens’’ 
and inserting ‘‘undocumented foreign nationals’’. 
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