[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2076 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2076

To prohibit the departments and agencies of the Federal Government from 
 requiring that any State, or political subdivision thereof, utilize a 
                     metric system of measurement.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                  May 4 (legislative day, May 2), 1994

  Mr. Dorgan introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
           referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the departments and agencies of the Federal Government from 
 requiring that any State, or political subdivision thereof, utilize a 
                     metric system of measurement.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON REQUIREMENT OF UTILIZATION OF METRIC SYSTEM.

    (a) Prohibition.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
department, agency, or other entity of the Federal Government may 
require that any State, or political subdivision thereof, utilize a 
metric system of measurement.
    (b) Effective Date.--The prohibition set forth in subsection (a) 
shall take effect on October 1, 1995.

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