21st Century President Act

Bill: 117-hr-3285
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2021-05-17
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Protection of officials

Right of privacy

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Violent crime
Latest action: action_date: 2022-12-27
text: Became Public Law No: 117-272.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>21st Century President Act</b></p> <p>This bill revises the definition of <em>immediate family</em> for purposes of a criminal offense involving a threat to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm on a former President or a member of the immediate family of a former President.</p> <p>Specifically, it replaces gender-specific references to a former President's <em>wife</em> and <em>widow</em> with the gender-neutral terms <em>spouse</em> and <em>surviving spouse</em>.</p>

action_date: 2022-06-21
action_desc: Passed House
text: <p><b>21st Century President Act</b></p> <p>This bill revises the definition of <em>immediate family</em> for purposes of a criminal offense involving a threat to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm on a former President or a member of the immediate family of a former President.</p> <p>Specifically, it replaces gender-specific references to a former President's <em>wife</em> and <em>widow</em> with the gender-neutral terms <em>spouse</em> and <em>surviving spouse</em>.</p>

action_date: 2022-12-20
action_desc: Passed Senate
text: <p><b>21st Century President Act</b></p> <p>This bill revises the definition of <em>immediate family</em> for purposes of a criminal offense involving a threat to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm on a former President or a member of the immediate family of a former President.</p> <p>Specifically, it replaces gender-specific references to a former President's <em>wife</em> and <em>widow</em> with the gender-neutral terms <em>spouse</em> and <em>surviving spouse</em>.</p>

action_date: 2022-12-27
action_desc: Public Law
text: <p><b>21st Century President Act</b></p> <p>This act revises the definition of <em>immediate family</em> for purposes of a criminal offense involving a threat to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm on a former President or a member of the immediate family of a former President.</p> <p>Specifically, it replaces gender-specific references to a former President's <em>wife</em> and <em>widow</em> with the gender-neutral terms <em>spouse</em> and <em>surviving spouse</em>.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3285 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 A BILL To amend gendered terms in Federal law relating to the President and the President’s spouse.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the “ 21st Century President Act ”. 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 .

tv_txt: IIB 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 3285 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 22, 2022 Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary AN ACT To amend gendered terms in Federal law relating to the President and the President’s spouse.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the “ 21st Century President Act ”. 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 .

Passed the House of Representatives June 21, 2022. Cheryl L. Johnson, Clerk. Kevin McCumber, Deputy Clerk

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 3285 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AN ACT To amend gendered terms in Federal law relating to the President and the President’s spouse.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the “ 21st Century President Act ”. 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 .

Passed the House of Representatives June 21, 2022. Cheryl L. Johnson, Clerk.

tv_txt: IB Union Calendar No. 291 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 3285 [Report No. 117–380] 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. Barragán , Mr. Rush , Ms. Velázquez , 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.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the 21st Century President Act . 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 .

June 21, 2022 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

tv_txt: I One Hundred Seventeenth Congress of the United States of America At the Second Session Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-two H. R. 3285 AN ACT To amend gendered terms in Federal law relating to the President and the President’s spouse.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the “ 21st Century President Act ”. 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 .

Speaker of the House of Representatives. Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate.