[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5657 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5657

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 17, 2020

   Mr. Steube (for himself, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Spano, Mr. Walberg, Mr. 
  Abraham, and Mr. Huizenga) 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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