[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 677 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 677

 To amend gendered terms in Federal law relating to the President and 
                        the President's spouse.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 17, 2019

 Mr. Pocan (for himself and Ms. Norton) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend gendered terms in Federal law relating to the President and 
                        the President's spouse.

    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 President Act''.

SEC. 2. MODERNIZATION OF TERMS RELATING TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE SPOUSE 
              OF A PRESIDENT.

    Section 879(b)(1)(A) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``the wife of a former President during his lifetime, the 
widow of a former President until her death or remarriage'' and 
inserting ``the spouse of a former President during a former 
President's lifetime, the surviving spouse of a former President until 
the surviving spouse's death or remarriage''.
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