Equality in Laws Act

The Equality in Laws Act would require the Law Revision Counsel of the House to update the United States Code (USC) to replace gender-specific pronouns and nouns with gender-neutral language, but only when doing so would not change the substance or meaning of the law. The bill applies to both titles that have already been enacted as positive law (have the force of law) and titles not yet enacted into positive law (nonpositive-law titles). For positive-law titles, the counsel would revise the language accordingly. For nonpositive-law titles, the counsel would draft amendments to insert gender-neutral language. The act also defines gender-neutral language as language that refers to all genders without excluding any. The goal is to standardize wording across the USC while preserving the original intent of Congress. The bill was introduced July 14, 2025, and referred to the Judiciary Committee.