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<dc:title>119 S2959 IS: Passport Sanity Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-10-01</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">II</distribution-code><congress>119th CONGRESS</congress><session>1st Session</session><legis-num>S. 2959</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES</current-chamber><action><action-date date="20251001">October 1, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="S411">Mr. Marshall</sponsor> (for himself, <cosponsor name-id="S396">Mrs. Blackburn</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="S423">Mr. Ricketts</cosponsor>, and <cosponsor name-id="S439">Mrs. Moody</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the <committee-name committee-id="SSFR00">Committee on Foreign Relations</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title>To prohibit the Secretary of State from issuing a passport, passport card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad that includes the unspecified <quote>X</quote> gender designation, and for other purposes.</official-title></form><legis-body style="OLC" display-enacting-clause="yes-display-enacting-clause" id="H5F662E54D65543C69C74CC2598D2DC1F"><section section-type="section-one" id="HD556FE8982DC45F4AA14489CB90C0707"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Passport Sanity Act</short-title></quote>. </text></section><section id="HDF95A5DB60444E0BBC0D7FF9FC58EBD4"><enum>2.</enum><header>Prohibition regarding certain gender designation on passports, passport cards, and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad issued by Department of State</header><subsection id="H84C3D2557E0F41DC9F64DA122674B6CB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Defined term</header><text>In this section, the term <term>covered document</term> means a passport, passport card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad issued by the Department of State.</text></subsection><subsection id="HDEB59332B2A54A8796DC5FF77434F698"><enum>(b)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of State shall—</text><paragraph id="H384BB8E1B0BC4A499E829144E3026DAB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>ensure each application for a covered document only includes the gender designation male or female; and </text></paragraph><paragraph id="H323D6F2127C847E0B0E6426860CD0D8D"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">prohibit the issuance of a covered document that includes the unspecified <quote>X</quote> gender designation.</text></paragraph></subsection></section></legis-body></bill> 

