21st Century President Act
This act revises the definition of immediate family for purposes of a criminal offense involving a threat to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm on a former President or a member of the immediate family of a former President.
Specifically, it replaces gender-specific references to a former President's wife and widow with the gender-neutral terms spouse and surviving spouse.
[117th Congress Public Law 272]
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Public Law 117-272
117th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To amend gendered terms in Federal law relating to the President and the 
       President's spouse. <<NOTE: Dec. 27, 2022 -  [H.R. 3285]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: 21st Century 
President Act. 18 USC 1 note.>> 
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''.

    Approved December 27, 2022.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 3285:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 117-380 (Comm. on the Judiciary).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 168 (2022):
            June 21, considered and passed House.
            Dec. 20, considered and passed Senate.

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21st Century President Act
To amend gendered terms in Federal law relating to the President and the President's spouse.
21st Century President Act
21st Century President Act
21st Century President Act
Rep. Pocan, Mark