[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Pages 7739-7740]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   21ST CENTURY LANGUAGE ACT OF 2012

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the Banking 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 2367.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 2367) to strike the world ``lunatic'' from 
     Federal law, and for other purposes.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the bill be read a 
third time and passed; the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, 
with no intervening action or debate; and any statements related to the 
bill be printed in the Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 2367) was ordered to a third reading, was read the third 
time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 2367

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

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     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 (b), 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''.

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