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H. Rept. 115-427,Part 1 1 (2017-11-28)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaipr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED r U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION 4 115TH CONGRESS REPT.115-427 1st Session j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1 21ST CENTURY RESPECT ACT NOVEMBER 28, 2017.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 995] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 995) to direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Sec- retary of the Interior to amend regulations for racial appropriate- ness, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the 21st Century Respect Act. SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS REQUIRED. (a) SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.-The Secretary of Agriculture shall amend sec- tion 1901.202 of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, for purposes of- (1) replacing the reference to the term Negro or Black with Black or Afri- can American; (2) replacing the reference to the term Spanish Surname with Hispanic; and (3) replacing the reference to the term Oriental with Asian American or Pa- cific Islander. (b) SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.-The Secretary of the Interior shall amend sec- tion 906.2 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, for purposes of- (1) replacing the references to the term Negro with Black or African Amer- ican; (2) replacing the definition of Negro with the definition of Black or African American as a person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Afri- ca; (3) replacing the references to the term Oriental with Asian American or Pacific Islander; and (4) replacing the references to the terms Eskimo and Aleut with Alaska Native. SEC. 3. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. Nothing in this Act, or the amendments required by this Act, shall be construed to affect Federal law, except with respect to the use of terms by the Secretary of 79-006