Equality in Laws Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 4373 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4373 To direct the Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives to replace gender-specific pronouns and nouns in the United States Code with gender-neutral language, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 14, 2025 Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania (for herself, Ms. Pressley, Mr. Garcia of California, and Ms. Norton) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To direct the Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives to replace gender-specific pronouns and nouns in the United States Code with gender-neutral language, 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 ``Equality in Laws Act''. SEC. 2. GENDER-NEUTRAL LANGUAGE IN THE UNITED STATES CODE. (a) In General.--The Law Revision Counsel of the House of Representatives shall make such changes to the titles of the United States Code as are necessary to replace masculine and feminine pronouns and nouns in such titles with gender-neutral language in each case in which such revisions and amendments would not affect the substance or meaning of the relevant titles, including-- (1) by striking ``his'' or ``hers'' each place it appears and, as required by the relevant context, inserting-- (A) ``the individual's''; (B) the appropriate possessive form of the noun to which the pronoun refers; (C) ``their'' or ``theirs''; or (D) the appropriate possessive form of the title of the position to which the pronoun refers; and (2) by striking ``he'', ``him'', ``she'', and ``her'' each place such words appear and, as required