[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1452 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1452

To provide that the language of the text of United States passports is 
                    written in English and Spanish.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 26, 2003

 Mr. Sessions (for himself, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Brady of Texas, and Mr. 
  Sullivan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that the language of the text of United States passports is 
                    written in English and Spanish.

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

SECTION 1. LANGUAGE OF UNITED STATES PASSPORTS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
language of the text of all regular United States passports shall be 
written in English and Spanish.
    (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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