[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5962 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5962

To require the Secretary of State to require the inclusion of a gender 
neutral designation in a passport, passport card, or Consular Report of 
                 Birth Abroad, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 2020

 Mr. Khanna (for himself, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Cicilline, Mrs. Davis of 
   California, Mr. Engel, Ms. Haaland, Ms. Norton, Mr. Huffman, Ms. 
Jayapal, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Gomez, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. 
 Kilmer, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Levin of Michigan, Mr. Lowenthal, 
   Mr. McGovern, Mr. Neguse, Mr. Pappas, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Quigley, Mr. 
 Rouda, Ms. Scanlon, Ms. Schakowsky, and Ms. Velazquez) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of State to require the inclusion of a gender 
neutral designation in a passport, passport card, or Consular Report of 
                 Birth Abroad, 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 ``Gender Inclusive Passport Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF GENDER NEUTRAL DESIGNATION OPTION IN PASSPORTS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of State shall, not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this section, permit an applicant for a passport, passport 
card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad to record gender in an 
application for such passport, passport card, or Consular Report of 
Birth Abroad with a sex data element authorized by the International 
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) specified in ICAO Doc 9303, Machine 
Readable Travel Documents.
    (b) Gender Designation.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of State, in accordance with 
        subsection (a), shall permit an applicant for a passport, 
        passport card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad to use an 
        ``unspecified'' (X) gender designation. Such designation shall 
        be made available without restriction to all applicants for a 
        passport, passport card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad.
            (2) Prohibitions.--The Secretary of State may not--
                    (A) deny the issuance of a passport, passport card, 
                or Consular Report of Birth Abroad to an otherwise 
                qualified applicant based solely on a request by such 
                applicant for an ``unspecified'' (X) gender 
                designation; or
                    (B) require such an applicant to select the 
                ``unspecified'' (X) gender designation on an 
                application for passport, passport card, or Consular 
                Report of Birth Abroad, including, without limitation, 
                an applicant who has one or more identity documents 
                bearing a sex or gender designation other than male (M) 
                or female (F).
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