Official Summaries

Religious Insignia on Dog Tags Act

This bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) to allow trademarks owned or controlled by DOD to be combined with religious insignia on commercial identification tags (i.e., dog tags) and to be sold by lawful trademark licensees.

The bill applies retroactively to September 13, 2013.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 453 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 453

To direct the Secretary of Defense to revise and update the Department 
 of Defense regulations to allow trademarks owned or controlled by the 
    Department of Defense to be combined with religious insignia on 
commercial identification tags (commonly known as ``dog tags'') and to 
     be sold by lawful trademark licensees, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2025

  Mr. Steube introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Defense to revise and update the Department 
 of Defense regulations to allow trademarks owned or controlled by the 
    Department of Defense to be combined with religious insignia on 
commercial identification tags (commonly known as ``dog tags'') and to 
     be sold by lawful trademark licensees, 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 ``Religious Insignia on Dog Tags 
Act''.

SEC. 2. RELIGIOUS INSIGNIA ON COMMERCIAL IDENTIFICATION TAGS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall review and update 
Department of Defense Directive 5535.12 and any associated regulations 
to allow trademarks owned or controlled by the Department of Defense to 
be combined with religious insignia on commercial identification tags 
(commonly known as ``dog tags'') and to be sold by lawful trademark 
licensees.
    (b) Retroactive Effective Date.--The update to the Directive under 
subsection (a) shall be deemed to have taken effect on September 13, 
2013.
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