Title: 21st Century Respect Act
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:
21st Century Respect Act
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the General Services Administration to change the terminology used to describe the racial background or place of origin of people in regulations concerning (1) USDA programs for financing and insuring loans for properties in rural areas, and (2) the 1974 development plan for Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 381 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 381

To direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Administrator of General 
          Services to modernize terms in certain regulations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2019

  Mr. Jeffries (for himself and Mr. Chabot) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in 
     addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Administrator of General 
          Services to modernize terms in certain regulations.

    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 Respect Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS REQUIRED.

    (a) Secretary of Agriculture.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
amend section 1901.202(g) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, to--
            (1) strike ``Negro or Black'' and insert ``Black or African 
        American'';
            (2) strike ``Spanish Surname'' and insert ``Hispanic''; and
            (3) strike ``Oriental'' and insert ``Asian American or 
        Pacific Islander''.
    (b) Administrator of General Services.--The Administrator of 
General Services shall amend section 906.2(k) of title 36, Code of 
Federal Regulations, to--
            (1) strike ``Negro'', each place it appears, and insert 
        ``Black or African American'';
            (2) strike paragraph (1) (the definition of ``Negro'') and 
        insert the following: ``(1) Black or African American--is an 
        individual having origins in any of the Black racial groups of 
        Africa'';
            (3) strike ``Oriental'', each place it appears, and insert 
        ``Asian American or Pacific Islander'';
            (4) strike ``Eskimo'', each place it appears, and insert 
        ``Alaska Native''; and
            (5) strike ``Aleut'', each place it appears, and insert 
        ``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 Agriculture and the Administrator of General 
Services, respectively, to the regulations affected by this Act.
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