Passport Sanity Act

Bill: 118-s-3011
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Vance, J. D. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2023-10-04
Policy area: Immigration
Latest action: action_date: 2023-10-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-10-04
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
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: 118th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 3011 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES October 4, 2023 Mr. Vance (for himself, Mr. Cassidy , and Mr. Budd ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations 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.