Passport Sanity Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
Requires Department of State passport, passport card, and Consular Report of Birth Abroad applications and documents to use only male or female gender designations and bars the unspecified X designation.
Who Benefits and How
Supporters of binary-only federal identity documents would receive a statutory requirement limiting covered documents to male or female designations.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Applicants seeking an X gender designation would lose that option, and the State Department would need to administer binary-only applications and document issuance.
Key Provisions
- Defines covered document to include passports, passport cards, and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad issued by the Department of State.
- Requires applications for covered documents to include only male or female gender designations.
- Prohibits issuance of covered documents with an unspecified X gender designation.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires Department of State passport, passport card, and Consular Report of Birth Abroad applications and documents to use only male or female gender designations and bars the unspecified X designation.
Key Policy Areas
Civil Rights, Government Operations, Foreign Affairs
Primary Purpose
Requires Department of State passport, passport card, and Consular Report of Birth Abroad applications and documents to use only male or female gender designations and bars the unspecified X designation.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Supporters of binary-only gender designations on federal identity documents
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Applicants seeking an X gender designation and State Department passport administrators
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Marshall (for himself, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Ricketts, and Mrs. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Applicants seeking an X gender designation on passports, passport cards, or Consular Reports of Birth Abroad
State Department passport and consular document administrators
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "secretary_of_state"
- → Secretary of State
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
A passport, passport card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad issued by the Department of State.
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