Bill Details
HR.1139 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-07 - Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Introduced Date
2025-02-07
Policy Area
Immigration
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This bill would require the State Department to stop using the “X” gender marker on passports, passport cards, and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad. It says these documents should only use “male” or “female” as gender choices. In simple terms, the bill would remove the option for an unspecified gender marker on these federal travel and citizenship documents.
- It would require every application for these documents to use only “male” and “female” gender designations.
- It would ban the State Department from issuing any passport, passport card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad that shows “X” as the gender marker.
Official Summaries
Passport Sanity Act
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.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1139 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1139
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.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 7, 2025
Mr. Roy introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs
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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.
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 ``Passport Sanity Act''.
SEC. 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.
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