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        S.2367

                      One Hundred Twelfth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and twelve


                                 An Act


 
To strike the word ``lunatic'' from Federal law, 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 ``21st Century Language Act of 2012''.
SEC. 2. MODERNIZATION OF LANGUAGE REFERRING TO PERSONS WHO ARE MENTALLY 
ILL.
    (a) Words Denoting Number, Gender, and So Forth.--Section 1 of 
title 1, United States Code, is amended--
        (1) by striking ``and `lunatic'''; and
        (2) by striking ``lunatic,''.
    (b) Banking Law Provisions.--
        (1) Trust powers.--The first section of the Act entitled ``An 
    Act to place authority over the trust powers of national banks in 
    the Comptroller of the Currency'', approved September 28, 1962 (12 
    U.S.C. 92a), is amended--
            (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``committee of estates 
        of lunatics,''; and
            (B) in subsection (j), by striking ``committee of estates 
        of lunatics''.
        (2) Consolidation and mergers of banks.--The National Bank 
    Consolidation and Merger Act (12 U.S.C. 215 et seq.) is amended--
            (A) in section 2 (12 U.S.C. 215)--
                (i) in subsection (e), by striking ``receiver, and 
            committee of estates of lunatics'' and inserting ``and 
            receiver''; and
                (ii) in subsection (f), by striking ``receiver, or 
            committee of estates of lunatics'' and inserting ``or 
            receiver''; and
            (B) in section 3 (12 U.S.C. 215a)--
                (i) in subsection (e), by striking ``receiver, and 
            committee of estates of lunatics'' and inserting ``and 
            receiver''; and
                (ii) in subsection (f), by striking ``receiver, or 
            committee of estates of lunatics'' and inserting ``or 
            receiver''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.