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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 453 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To direct the Secretary of Defense to revise and update the Department |
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| 6 | 6 | | of Defense regulations to allow trademarks owned or controlled by the |
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| 7 | 7 | | Department of Defense to be combined with religious insignia on com- |
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| 8 | 8 | | mercial identification tags (commonly known as ‘‘dog tags’’) and to |
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| 9 | 9 | | be sold by lawful trademark licensees, and for other purposes. |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 11 | 11 | | JANUARY15, 2025 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Mr. S |
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| 13 | 13 | | TEUBEintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 14 | 14 | | Committee on Armed Services |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To direct the Secretary of Defense to revise and update |
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| 17 | 17 | | the Department of Defense regulations to allow trade- |
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| 18 | 18 | | marks owned or controlled by the Department of Defense |
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| 19 | 19 | | to be combined with religious insignia on commercial |
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| 20 | 20 | | identification tags (commonly known as ‘‘dog tags’’) and |
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| 21 | 21 | | to be sold by lawful trademark licensees, and for other |
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| 22 | 22 | | purposes. |
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| 23 | 23 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Religious Insignia on 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Dog Tags Act’’. 5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | •HR 453 IH |
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| 31 | 31 | | SEC. 2. RELIGIOUS INSIGNIA ON COMMERCIAL IDENTIFICA-1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | TION TAGS. 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (a) I |
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| 34 | 34 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 4 |
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| 36 | 36 | | shall review and update Department of Defense Directive 5 |
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| 37 | 37 | | 5535.12 and any associated regulations to allow trade-6 |
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| 38 | 38 | | marks owned or controlled by the Department of Defense 7 |
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| 39 | 39 | | to be combined with religious insignia on commercial iden-8 |
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| 40 | 40 | | tification tags (commonly known as ‘‘dog tags’’) and to 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | be sold by lawful trademark licensees. 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (b) R |
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| 43 | 43 | | ETROACTIVEEFFECTIVEDATE.—The update to 11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | the Directive under subsection (a) shall be deemed to have 12 |
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| 45 | 45 | | taken effect on September 13, 2013. 13 |
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