Passport Sanity Act

Bill: 117-hr-6792
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2022-02-18
Policy area: International Affairs
Latest action: action_date: 2022-02-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-02-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Passport Sanity Act</strong></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Department of State from issuing a passport, passport card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad with an unspecified (X) gender designation. The State Department must also ensure that applications for such documents include only male and female gender designations.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 6792 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 18, 2022 Mr. Roy (for himself, Mr. Gohmert , Mr. Good of Virginia , Mrs. Miller of Illinois , Mrs. Boebert , Mr. Gaetz , Mr. Budd , and Mr. Duncan ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs A BILL To prohibit the Secretary of State from issuing a passport, passport card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad that includes the unspecified (X) gender designation, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Passport Sanity Act . 2. Prohibition regarding certain gender designation on passports, passport cards, and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad issued by Department of State (a) In general The Secretary of State shall— (1) ensure each application for a covered document includes only the gender designations male and female; and (2) prohibit the issuing of a covered document that includes the unspecified (X) gender designation. (b) Covered document defined In this section, the term covered document means a passport, passport card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad issued by the Department of State.