United States HR 5657: Religious Insignia on Dog Tags Act

Bill Text

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116TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION H. R. 5657
To direct the Secretary of Defense to revise and update the Department
of Defense regulations to allow trademarks owned or controlled by the
Department of Defense to be combined with religious insignia on com-
mercial identification tags (commonly known as ‘‘dog tags’’) and to
be sold by lawful trademark licensees, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 17, 2020
Mr. STEUBE (for himself, Mr. HUDSON, Mr. SPANO, Mr. WALBERG, Mr.
ABRAHAM, and Mr. HUIZENGA) introduced the following bill; which was
referred to the Committee on Armed Services
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Defense to revise and update
the Department of Defense regulations to allow trade-
marks owned or controlled by the Department of Defense
to be combined with religious insignia on commercial
identification tags (commonly known as ‘‘dog tags’’) and
to be sold by lawful trademark licensees, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Religious Insignia on 2
Dog Tags Act’’. 3
SEC. 2. RELIGIOUS INSIGNIA ON COMMERCIAL IDENTIFICA-4
TION TAGS. 5
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 6
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 7
shall review and update Department of Defense Directive 8
5535.12 and any associated regulations to allow trade-9
marks owned or controlled by the Department of Defense 10
to be combined with religious insignia on commercial iden-11
tification tags (commonly known as ‘‘dog tags’’) and to 12
be sold by lawful trademark licensees. 13
(b) RETROACTIVE EFFECTIVE DATE.—The update to 14
the Directive under subsection (a) shall be deemed to have 15
taken effect on September 13, 2013. 16
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