Text of US HB 98 (2017)

I 115TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 98 To replace references to ‘‘wives’’ and ‘‘husbands’’ in Federal law with references to ‘‘spouses’’, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 3, 2017 Ms. BROWNLEY of California introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To replace references to ‘‘wives’’ and ‘‘husbands’’ in Federal law with references to ‘‘spouses’’, 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 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Amend the Code for 4 Marriage Equality Act of 2017’’. 5 SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS. 6 (a) ACT OF AUGUST 16, 1941.—Section 2(b) of the 7 Act of August 16, 1941, entitled ‘‘An Act to provide com- 8 pensation for disability or death to persons employed at 9 military, air, and naval bases outside the United States.’’ 10 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 98 IH (42 U.S.C. 1652(b)) is amended by striking ‘‘wife’’ each 1 place such term appears and inserting ‘‘spouse’’. 2 (b) ACT OF AUGUST 4, 1955.—Section 43(a) of the 3 Act of August 4, 1955, entitled ‘‘An Act to direct the Sec- 4 retary of Agriculture to release on behalf of the United 5 States conditions in two deeds conveying certain submar- 6 ginal lands to Clemson Agricultural College of South 7 Carolina so as to permit such college, subject to certain 8 conditions, to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of such 9 lands.’’ (42 U.S.C. 2333(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘hus- 10 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’. 11 (c) ACT OF DECEMBER 2, 1942.—Section 101(c) of 12 the Act of December 2, 1942, entitled ‘‘An Act to provide 13 compensation for the injury, disability, death, or enemy 14 detention of employees of contractors with the United 15 States, and for other purposes.’’ (42 U.S.C. 1701(c)) is 16 amended by striking ‘‘wife or husband’’ each place such 17 term appears and inserting ‘‘spouse’’. 18 (d) ACT OF FEBRUARY 28, 1891.—Section 5 of the 19 Act of February 28, 1891 (25 U.S.C. 371), is amended 20 by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘a married 21 couple’’. 22 (e) ACT OF SEPTEMBER 2, 1960.—The Act of Sep- 23 tember 2, 1960, entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for continued 24 delivery of water under the Federal reclamation laws to 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 98 IH lands held by husband and wife upon the death of either’’ 1 (43 U.S.C. 423h) is amended— 2 (1) in the title, by striking ‘‘husband and wife 3 upon the death of either’’ and inserting ‘‘a married 4 couple upon the death of either spouse’’; and 5 (2) by striking ‘‘husband or wife’’ and inserting 6 ‘‘married person’’. 7 (f) CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ACT OF 8 1949.—The Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 (50 9 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) is amended— 10 (1) in the heading of section 16(c), by striking 11 ‘‘Wives or Husbands’’ and inserting ‘‘Spouses’’; and 12 (2) in section 19(b)(4), by striking ‘‘widow or 13 widower, former spouse, and/or a child or children as 14 defined in section 204 and section 232 of the Cen- 15 tral Intelligence Agency Retirement Act of 1964 for 16 Certain Employees’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse, 17 former spouse, or child as defined in section 102 of 18 the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act’’. 19 (g) CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT 20 ACT.—The Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act 21 (50 U.S.C. 2001 et seq.) is amended— 22 (1) in section 221(d)(5), by striking ‘‘former 23 wife or husband of’’ and inserting ‘‘person who has 24 been, but is no longer, married to’’; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 4 •HR 98 IH (2) in section 232(c)(3), by striking ‘‘former 1 wife or husband of’’ and inserting ‘‘person who has 2 been, but is no longer, married to’’; 3 (3) in section 241— 4 (A) in subsection (b)— 5 (i) in paragraph (2), by inserting after 6 ‘‘former spouse’’ the following: ‘‘(as de- 7 fined under section 102)’’; 8 (ii) in paragraph (3)— 9 (I) in the heading, by striking 10 ‘‘wife or husband’’ and inserting 11 ‘‘spouse other than as defined under 12 section 102’’; and 13 (II) by striking ‘‘former wife or 14 husband of the former participant’’ 15 and inserting ‘‘person who has been, 16 but is no longer, married to the 17 former participant, but who is not a 18 former spouse as defined under suc- 19 tion 102’’; and 20 (iii) in paragraph (4)(A), by striking 21 ‘‘former wife or husband’’ and inserting 22 ‘‘person’’; 23 (B) in subsection (c)(2), by striking ‘‘sur- 24 viving wife or husband of such participant’’ and 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 5 •HR 98 IH inserting ‘‘person who was married to such par- 1 ticipant at the participant’s death’’; and 2 (C) in paragraph (d)(2)— 3 (i) by striking ‘‘surviving former 4 spouse or surviving former wife or husband 5 of such participant’’ and inserting ‘‘per- 6 son’’; and 7 (ii) by striking ‘‘to such former spouse 8 or former wife or husband’’ and inserting 9 ‘‘under such paragraph’’; and 10 (4) in section 304(d)(2), by striking ‘‘widow or 11 widower’’ each place such term appears and insert- 12 ing ‘‘surviving spouse’’. 13 (h) ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS 14 COMPENSATION PROGRAM ACT OF 2000.—The Energy 15 Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program 16 Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 7384 et seq.) is amended— 17 (1) in section 3628(e)(3)(A), by striking ‘‘wife 18 or husband of that individual’’ and inserting ‘‘per- 19 son’’; and 20 (2) in section 3630(e)(3)(A), by striking ‘‘wife 21 or husband of that individual’’ and inserting ‘‘per- 22 son’’. 23 (i) ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT ACT OF 1978.—Section 24 109(16) of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 6 •HR 98 IH U.S.C. App. 109(16)) is amended by striking ‘‘husband, 1 wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’. 2 (j) FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT OF 1993.— 3 Section 102(f) of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 4 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2612(f)) is amended— 5 (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘husband and 6 wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; and 7 (2) in paragraph (2)— 8 (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘that 9 husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘such 10 spouses’’; and 11 (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘hus- 12 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’. 13 (k) FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN ACT OF 1971.— 14 Section 313(c)(3)(B) of the Federal Election Campaign 15 Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30114(c)(3)(B)) is amended by 16 striking ‘‘husband, wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’. 17 (l) FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT OF 18 1977.—The Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 19 (30 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) is amended— 20 (1) in section 402— 21 (A) in subsection (a)(2)— 22 (i) by striking ‘‘wife who is a member 23 of the same household of the miner’’ and 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 7 •HR 98 IH inserting ‘‘spouse who is a member of the 1 same household as the miner’’; 2 (ii) by striking ‘‘miner for her sup- 3 port’’ and inserting ‘‘miner for his or her 4 support’’; 5 (iii) by striking ‘‘whose husband is a 6 miner who has been ordered by a court to 7 contribute to her support’’ and inserting 8 ‘‘for whose support the miner has been or- 9 dered by a court to contribute’’; 10 (iv) by striking ‘‘216(b) (1) or (2)’’ 11 and inserting ‘‘216(b)(1) or (2)’’; 12 (v) by striking ‘‘status as the ‘wife’ of 13 a miner’’ and inserting ‘‘status as the 14 ‘spouse’ of a miner’’; 15 (vi) by striking ‘‘ ‘wife’ also includes a 16 ‘divorced wife’ as defined in section 17 216(d)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘ ‘spouse’ also in- 18 cludes a ‘divorced spouse’ as defined in 19 section 216(d)(9)’’; 20 (vii) by striking ‘‘one-half of her sup- 21 port’’ and inserting ‘‘half of his or her sup- 22 port’’; and 23 (viii) by inserting ‘‘his or’’ before ‘‘her 24 support from such miner’’; and 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 8 •HR 98 IH (B) in subsection (e)— 1 (i) by striking ‘‘widow includes the 2 wife’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse in- 3 cludes the spouse’’; 4 (ii) by striking ‘‘individual’s status as 5 the ‘widow’ ’’ and inserting ‘‘individual’s 6 status as the ‘surviving spouse’ ’’; 7 (iii) by striking ‘‘surviving divorced 8 wife’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving divorced 9 spouse’’; and 10 (iv) by inserting ‘‘his or’’ before ‘‘her’’ 11 each place such term appears; 12 (2) in section 411(c)(4)— 13 (A) by striking ‘‘widow’s,’’ and inserting 14 ‘‘surviving spouse’s,’’; and 15 (B) by striking ‘‘wife’s’’ and inserting 16 ‘‘spouse’s’’; and 17 (3) in section 413(b)— 18 (A) by striking ‘‘wife’s’’ and inserting 19 ‘‘surviving spouse’s’’; and 20 (B) by striking ‘‘widow,’’ and inserting 21 ‘‘surviving spouse,’’. 22 (m) FOREIGN SERVICE ACT OF 1980.—The Foreign 23 Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.) is amend- 24 ed— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 9 •HR 98 IH (1) in the item relating to the first section 830 1 in the table of contents, by striking ‘‘wives and hus- 2 bands’’ and inserting ‘‘spouses’’; 3 (2) in section 804— 4 (A) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘former 5 wife or husband of a participant or former par- 6 ticipant’’ and inserting ‘‘person’’; and 7 (B) in paragraph (13), by striking ‘‘sur- 8 viving wife or husband of a participant or annu- 9 itant who was married to the’’ and inserting 10 ‘‘person who was married to a’’; 11 (3) in section 815(f)(2), by striking ‘‘wife or 12 husband’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; and 13 (4) in the first section 830 (relating to qualified 14 former wives and husbands)— 15 (A) in the heading of such section, by 16 striking ‘‘former wives and husbands’’ and in- 17 serting ‘‘spouses’’; 18 (B) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘quali- 19 fied former wife or husband’’ and inserting 20 ‘‘qualified former spouse’’; and 21 (C) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘former 22 wife or husband’’ each place such term occurs 23 and inserting ‘‘former spouse’’. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 10 •HR 98 IH (n) IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT.—The Im- 1 migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) is 2 amended— 3 (1) in section 101(a)(35) (8 U.S.C. 4 1101(a)(35))— 5 (A) by striking ‘‘, ‘wife’, or ‘husband’ ’’; 6 and 7 (B) by striking ‘‘, wife, or husband’’; 8 (2) in section 202(b) (8 U.S.C. 1152(b)), by 9 striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ and inserting 10 ‘‘spouses’’; 11 (3) in section 278 (8 U.S.C. 1328), by striking 12 ‘‘a husband or wife shall be admissible and com- 13 petent evidence against each other’’ and inserting 14 ‘‘an individual shall be admissible and competent 15 evidence against such individual’s spouse’’; and 16 (4) in section 283 (8 U.S.C. 1353), by striking 17 ‘‘wives’’ and inserting ‘‘spouses’’. 18 (o) INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION ACT.—Section 19 207(j)(3)(A)(ii) of the Indian Land Consolidation Act (25 20 U.S.C. 2206) is amended by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ 21 and inserting ‘‘the participants as spouses’’. 22 (p) INTERNAL REVENUE CODE.—The Internal Rev- 23 enue Code of 1986 is amended— 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 11 •HR 98 IH (1) in the matter following section 21(d)(2)(B), 1 by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘mar- 2 ried couple’’; 3 (2) in section 22(e)(1), by striking ‘‘husband 4 and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 5 (3) in section 38(c)(6)(A), by striking ‘‘husband 6 or wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 7 (4) in section 42(j)(5)(C)— 8 (A) in the heading of clause (i), by striking 9 ‘‘Husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘Married 10 couple’’; and 11 (B) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘a husband 12 and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘a married couple’’; 13 (5) in section 62(b)(3)(A), by striking ‘‘hus- 14 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 15 (6) in section 121— 16 (A) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘hus- 17 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 18 and 19 (B) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘hus- 20 band and wife make’’ and inserting ‘‘married 21 couple makes’’; 22 (7) in section 165(h)(4)(B), by striking ‘‘hus- 23 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 12 •HR 98 IH (8) in section 179(b)(4), by striking ‘‘husband 1 and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 2 (9) in section 213(d)(8), by striking ‘‘husband 3 and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘a married couple’’; 4 (10) in section 219(g)(4), by striking ‘‘A hus- 5 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘Spouses’’; 6 (11) in section 274(b)(2)(B), by striking ‘‘hus- 7 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 8 (12) in the matter following section 643(f)(2), 9 by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘mar- 10 ried couple’’; 11 (13) in section 682— 12 (A) in subsection (a)— 13 (i) in the heading, by striking ‘‘wife’’ 14 and inserting ‘‘recipient’’; 15 (ii) by striking ‘‘gross income of a 16 wife’’ and inserting ‘‘gross income of an in- 17 dividual’’; 18 (iii) by striking ‘‘separated from her 19 husband’’ and inserting ‘‘separated from 20 his or her spouse’’; 21 (iv) by striking ‘‘such wife is entitled 22 to receive’’ and inserting ‘‘such person is 23 entitled to receive’’; 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 13 •HR 98 IH (v) by striking ‘‘gross income of her 1 husband’’ and inserting ‘‘gross income of 2 his or her spouse’’; 3 (vi) by striking ‘‘gross income of such 4 husband’’ and inserting ‘‘gross income of 5 such spouse’’; and 6 (vii) by striking ‘‘minor children of 7 such husband’’ and inserting ‘‘minor chil- 8 dren of such spouse’’; and 9 (B) in subsection (b)— 10 (i) in the heading, by striking ‘‘Wife’’ 11 and inserting ‘‘Recipient’’; 12 (ii) by striking ‘‘a wife to whom sub- 13 section (a) applies’’ and inserting ‘‘an indi- 14 vidual who receives income from a trust to 15 which subsection (a) applies’’; and 16 (iii) by striking ‘‘such wife’’ and in- 17 serting ‘‘such individual’’; 18 (14) in section 761(f), by striking ‘‘husband 19 and wife’’ each place such term appears and insert- 20 ing ‘‘married couple’’; 21 (15) in section 911— 22 (A) in subsection (b)(2)(C)— 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 14 •HR 98 IH (i) by striking ‘‘husband or wife’’ and 1 inserting ‘‘member of a married couple’’; 2 and 3 (ii) by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ 4 and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; and 5 (B) in subsection (d)(9), by striking ‘‘a 6 husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘the members 7 of a married couple’’; 8 (16) in section 1244(b)(2), by striking ‘‘hus- 9 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 10 (17) in section 1272(a)(2)(E)(iii)— 11 (A) in the heading of such clause, by strik- 12 ing ‘‘husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married 13 couple’’; and 14 (B) by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ and 15 inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 16 (18) in section 1313(c)(1), by striking ‘‘hus- 17 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 18 (19) in section 1361(c)(1)(A)(i), by striking 19 ‘‘husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 20 (20) in the heading of section 2040(b), by strik- 21 ing ‘‘husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouses’’; 22 (21) in the item relating to section 2513 in the 23 table of contents for subchapter B of chapter 12 of 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 15 •HR 98 IH subtitle B, by striking ‘‘husband or wife’’ and insert- 1 ing ‘‘spouse’’; 2 (22) in the heading of section 2513, by striking 3 ‘‘husband or wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 4 (23) in section 2516, by striking ‘‘a husband 5 and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘the members of a married 6 couple’’; 7 (24) in section 5733(d)(2), by striking ‘‘a hus- 8 band or wife’’ and inserting ‘‘an individual’’; 9 (25) in the item relating to section 6013 in the 10 table of contents for subpart B of part II of sub- 11 chapter A of chapter 61 of subtitle F, by striking 12 ‘‘husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 13 (26) in section 6013— 14 (A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘husband 15 and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 16 (B) in subsection (a)— 17 (i) in the matter preceding paragraph 18 (1), by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ and 19 inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 20 (ii) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘the 21 husband or wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 22 and 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 16 •HR 98 IH (iii) in paragraph (2), by striking 1 ‘‘husband and wife’’ and inserting 2 ‘‘spouses’’; 3 (C) in subsection (b)(1)— 4 (i) by striking ‘‘filed by the husband 5 and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘filed by the mar- 6 ried couple’’; and 7 (ii) by striking ‘‘the return of the hus- 8 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘the return 9 of both spouses’’; 10 (D) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘the hus- 11 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘the spouses’’; 12 and 13 (E) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘hus- 14 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘a married cou- 15 ple’’; 16 (27) in the matter following section 6014(b)(4), 17 by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘a 18 married couple’’; 19 (28) in section 6017, by striking ‘‘husband and 20 wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 21 (29) in section 6096(a), by striking ‘‘husband 22 and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘a married couple’’; 23 (30) in section 6166(b)(2)(B)— 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 17 •HR 98 IH (A) in the heading of such subparagraph, 1 by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ and inserting 2 ‘‘a married couple’’; 3 (B) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘husband and 4 wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; and 5 (C) in clause (ii) by striking ‘‘husband and 6 wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 7 (31) in section 6212(b)(2), by striking ‘‘hus- 8 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘a married couple’’; 9 (32) in section 6231(a)— 10 (A) in paragraph (1)(B)(i), by striking ‘‘a 11 husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘a married 12 couple’’; and 13 (B) in paragraph (12)— 14 (i) by amending the heading to read 15 as follows: 16 ‘‘(12) SPOUSES.—’’; and 17 (ii) by striking ‘‘a husband and wife’’ 18 and inserting ‘‘spouses’’; 19 (33) in section 7428(c)(2)(A), by striking ‘‘hus- 20 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 21 (34) in section 7701(a), by amending para- 22 graph (17) to read as follows: 23 ‘‘(17) DIVORCED SPOUSES.—As used in sec- 24 tions 682 and 2516, if the married couple therein 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 18 •HR 98 IH referred to are divorced, wherever appropriate to the 1 meaning of such sections the term ‘spouse’ shall be 2 read ‘former spouse’ and the term ‘married couple’ 3 shall be read ‘former married couple’.’’; and 4 (35) in section 7872(f)(7)— 5 (A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘Husband 6 and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘Married couple’’; and 7 (B) by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ and 8 inserting ‘‘married couple’’. 9 (q) LONGSHORE AND HARBOR WORKERS’ COM- 10 PENSATION ACT.—The Longshore and Harbor Workers’ 11 Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.) is amended— 12 (1) in section 2(16), by striking ‘‘wife or hus- 13 band’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 14 (2) in section 5(a), by striking ‘‘husband or 15 wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 16 (3) in section 8(d)(1)(D), by striking ‘‘wife, 17 husband,’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; and 18 (4) in section 9— 19 (A) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘wife or 20 husband’’ each place such term appears and in- 21 serting ‘‘spouse’’; and 22 (B) in subsection (g), by striking ‘‘wife’’ 23 each place such term appears and inserting 24 ‘‘spouse’’. 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 19 •HR 98 IH (r) NATIONAL HOUSING ACT.—Section 527(a) of the 1 National Housing Act (8 U.S.C. 1735f–5(a)) is amended 2 by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouses’’. 3 (s) ACT OF SEPTEMBER 5, 1962.—Section 3(c) of the 4 Act of September 5, 1962, entitled ‘‘An Act to provide 5 for the division of the tribal assets of the Ponca Tribe 6 of Native Americans of Nebraska among the members of 7 the tribe, and for other purposes.’’ (25 U.S.C. 973(c)) is 8 amended by striking ‘‘wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’. 9 (t) RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACT OF 1974.—The 10 Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 (45 U.S.C. 231 et seq.) 11 is amended— 12 (1) in section 2— 13 (A) in subsection (c)— 14 (i) in paragraph (1)(ii), by striking 15 ‘‘(C), in the case of a wife, has in her care 16 (individually or jointly with her husband)’’ 17 and inserting ‘‘(C) has in his or her care 18 (individually or jointly with his or her 19 spouse)’’; 20 (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘di- 21 vorced wife’’ each place such term appears 22 and inserting ‘‘divorced spouse’’; 23 (iii) in paragraph (3)— 24 (I) by striking ‘‘(i)’’; and 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 20 •HR 98 IH (II) by striking ‘‘; and (ii) in the 1 case of a husband, was receiving at 2 least one-half of his support from his 3 wife at the time his wife’s annuity 4 under subsection (a)(1) began’’; 5 (iv) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘di- 6 vorced wife’’ each place such term appears 7 and inserting ‘‘divorced spouse’’; and 8 (v) in the matter following paragraph 9 (4), by striking ‘‘divorced wife’s annuity’’ 10 and inserting ‘‘divorced spouse’s annuity’’; 11 (B) in subsection (d)— 12 (i) in paragraph (1)— 13 (I) in clause (i)— 14 (aa) by striking ‘‘a widow 15 (as defined in section 216 (c) and 16 (k) of the Social Security Act) or 17 widower (as defined in section 18 216 (g) and (k) of the Social Se- 19 curity Act)’’ and inserting ‘‘a 20 surviving spouse (as defined in 21 section 216(a) of the Social Secu- 22 rity Act)’’; and 23 (bb) by striking ‘‘, and who, 24 in the case of a widower, was re- 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 21 •HR 98 IH ceiving at least one-half his sup- 1 port from the deceased employee 2 at the time of her death or at the 3 time her annuity under sub- 4 section (a)(1) began’’; 5 (II) in clause (ii)— 6 (aa) by striking ‘‘a widow 7 (as defined in section 216 (c) and 8 (k) of the Social Security Act)’’ 9 and inserting ‘‘a surviving spouse 10 (as defined in section 216(a) of 11 the Social Security Act)’’; and 12 (bb) by inserting ‘‘his or’’ 13 before ‘‘her’’; 14 (III) in clause (iv), by striking 15 ‘‘widow or widower’’ and inserting 16 ‘‘surviving spouse’’; and 17 (IV) in clause (v)— 18 (aa) by striking ‘‘The widow 19 (as defined in section 216(c) of 20 the Social Security Act)’’ and in- 21 serting ‘‘the surviving spouse (as 22 defined in section 216(a) of the 23 Social Security Act)’’; 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00021 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 22 •HR 98 IH (bb) by striking ‘‘wife (as 1 defined in section 216(d)’’ and 2 inserting ‘‘spouse (as defined in 3 section 216(a)’’; 4 (cc) by striking ‘‘mother (as 5 defined’’ and inserting ‘‘parent 6 (as defined’’; 7 (dd) by striking ‘‘widow, 8 surviving divorced wife, or sur- 9 viving divorced mother’’ each 10 place such term appears and in- 11 serting ‘‘surviving spouse, sur- 12 viving divorced spouse, or sur- 13 viving divorced parent’’; and 14 (ee) by striking ‘‘202(f)’’ 15 and inserting ‘‘202(e)’’; 16 (ii) in paragraph (2)— 17 (I) by striking ‘‘, (B) in the case 18 of a widow, the last month for which 19 she was entitled to an annuity under 20 paragraph (ii) of subdivision (1) as 21 the widow of the deceased employee,’’; 22 and 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00022 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 23 •HR 98 IH (II) by striking ‘‘widow or wid- 1 ower’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving 2 spouse’’; 3 (iii) in paragraph (3), by striking 4 ‘‘widow, widower, or child’’ and inserting 5 ‘‘surviving spouse or child’’; and 6 (iv) in paragraph (4)— 7 (I) by striking ‘‘wife, husband, 8 widow, widower’’ and inserting 9 ‘‘spouse, surviving spouse’’; 10 (II) by striking ‘‘or (c)’’; 11 (III) by striking ‘‘subsection, (e), 12 (f), or (g)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 13 (e) or (g)’’; and 14 (IV) by striking 15 ‘‘202(d)(7)(c)(i)’’ and inserting 16 ‘‘202(d)(7)(C)(i)’’; 17 (C) in subsection (e)(5), by striking ‘‘di- 18 vorced wife’’ and inserting ‘‘divorced spouse’’; 19 (D) in subsection (f)(2), by striking 20 ‘‘wife’s’’ each place such term appears and in- 21 serting ‘‘spouse’s’’; and 22 (E) in subsection (h)(3), by striking ‘‘wife’’ 23 and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 24 (2) in section 3— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00023 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 24 •HR 98 IH (A) in subsection (f)— 1 (i) in paragraph (1), by striking 2 ‘‘wife’s or husband’s’’ and inserting 3 ‘‘spouse’s’’; and 4 (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking 5 ‘‘wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; and 6 (B) in subsection (h)— 7 (i) by striking ‘‘wife, husband, widow, 8 or widower’’ each place such term appears 9 and inserting ‘‘spouse or surviving 10 spouse’’; and 11 (ii) by striking ‘‘wife’s, husband’s, 12 widow’s, or widower’s’’ and inserting 13 ‘‘spouse’s or surviving spouse’s’’; 14 (3) in section 4— 15 (A) in subsection (a)— 16 (i) in paragraph (1)— 17 (I) by striking ‘‘divorced wife’’ 18 each place such term appears and in- 19 serting ‘‘divorced spouse’’; and 20 (II) by striking ‘‘wife’s insurance 21 benefit or the husband’s insurance 22 benefit’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’s in- 23 surance benefit’’; and 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 25 •HR 98 IH (ii) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘sec- 1 tion 202(a), section 202(b), or section 2 202(c)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 202(a) or 3 section 202(c)’’; 4 (B) in subsection (e)— 5 (i) by striking ‘‘wife’s or husband’s in- 6 surance benefit’’ each place such term ap- 7 pears and inserting ‘‘spouse’s insurance 8 benefit’’; and 9 (ii) in paragraph (4), by striking 10 ‘‘wife’s and husband’s’’ and inserting 11 ‘‘spouse’s’’; 12 (C) in subsection (f)— 13 (i) in paragraph (1)— 14 (I) by striking ‘‘widow’s insur- 15 ance benefit, widower’s insurance ben- 16 efit, mother’s insurance benefits, par- 17 ent’s insurance benefit, or child’s in- 18 surance benefit’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 19 viving spouse’s insurance benefit, par- 20 ent’s insurance benefit, or child’s in- 21 surance benefit’’; 22 (II) by striking ‘‘widow or wid- 23 ower’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving 24 spouse’’; and 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 26 •HR 98 IH (III) by striking ‘‘widow’s insur- 1 ance benefit or widower’s insurance 2 benefit payable under section 202(e) 3 or 202(f)’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving 4 spouse’s insurance benefit payable 5 under section 202(e)’’; 6 (ii) in paragraph (2)— 7 (I) by striking ‘‘widow or wid- 8 ower’’ each place such term appears 9 and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 10 (II) in clause (ii), by striking 11 ‘‘widow’s insurance benefit, a wid- 12 ower’s insurance benefit, or’’ and in- 13 serting ‘‘surviving spouse’s benefit 14 or’’; and 15 (III) in clause (iii), by striking 16 ‘‘widow, surviving divorced wife, or 17 surviving divorced mother’’ and insert- 18 ing ‘‘surviving spouse, surviving di- 19 vorced spouse, or surviving divorced 20 parent’’; and 21 (iii) in paragraph (3), by striking 22 ‘‘widow or widower’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 23 viving spouse’’; 24 (D) in subsection (g)— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 27 •HR 98 IH (i) in paragraph (1)(i), by striking 1 ‘‘widow or widower’’ each place such term 2 appears and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 3 (ii) in paragraph (4)— 4 (I) by striking ‘‘widow or wid- 5 ower’’ each place such term appears 6 and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; and 7 (II) by striking ‘‘widow’s or wid- 8 ower’s’’ each place such term appears 9 and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’s’’; 10 (iii) in paragraph (5), by striking 11 ‘‘widow, surviving divorced wife, or sur- 12 viving divorced mother’’ and inserting 13 ‘‘surviving spouse, surviving divorced 14 spouse, or surviving divorced parent’’; and 15 (iv) in paragraph (10)— 16 (I) by striking ‘‘widow or wid- 17 ower’’ each place such term appears 18 and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 19 (II) by striking ‘‘widow’s or wid- 20 ower’s’’ each place such term appears 21 and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’s’’; 22 and 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00027 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 28 •HR 98 IH (III) in clause (ii), by striking 1 ‘‘widow or widower’s’’ and inserting 2 ‘‘surviving spouse’s’’; 3 (E) in subsection (h)— 4 (i) in paragraph (1)— 5 (I) by striking ‘‘widow or wid- 6 ower’’ each place such term appears 7 and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 8 (II) by striking ‘‘widow’s or wid- 9 ower’s’’ each place such term appears 10 and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’s’’; 11 and 12 (III) by striking ‘‘or 202(f)’’; and 13 (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking 14 ‘‘widow, surviving divorced wife, or sur- 15 viving divorced mother’’ and inserting 16 ‘‘surviving spouse, surviving divorced 17 spouse, or surviving divorced parent’’; and 18 (F) in subsection (i), by striking ‘‘spouse 19 or divorced wife’’ each place such term appears 20 and inserting ‘‘spouse or divorced spouse’’; 21 (4) in section 5— 22 (A) in subsection (a)— 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00028 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 29 •HR 98 IH (i) in clause (v), by striking ‘‘wife, 1 husband, widow, or widower’’ and inserting 2 ‘‘spouse or surviving spouse’’; and 3 (ii) in clause (vii), by striking ‘‘wife’s 4 or husband’s’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’s’’; 5 (B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘widow 6 or widower’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; and 7 (C) in subsection (c)— 8 (i) in paragraph (3)— 9 (I) by striking ‘‘wife’’ each place 10 such term appears and inserting 11 ‘‘spouse’’; and 12 (II) by inserting ‘‘his or’’ before 13 ‘‘her’’; 14 (ii) in paragraph (4), by striking 15 ‘‘widow or widower’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 16 viving spouse’’; 17 (iii) in paragraph (5), by striking 18 ‘‘widow or widower’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 19 viving spouse’’; 20 (iv) in paragraph (6)— 21 (I) by striking ‘‘widow’’ and in- 22 serting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00029 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 30 •HR 98 IH (II) by striking ‘‘she dies’’ and 1 inserting ‘‘such surviving spouse 2 dies’’; 3 (III) by striking ‘‘she remarries’’ 4 and inserting ‘‘such surviving spouse 5 remarries’’; and 6 (IV) by striking ‘‘she no longer’’ 7 and inserting ‘‘such surviving spouse 8 no longer’’; and 9 (v) in paragraph (9)(B), by striking 10 ‘‘widow’s or widower’s’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 11 viving spouse’s’’; 12 (5) in section 6— 13 (A) in subsection (a)— 14 (i) in paragraph (1), by striking 15 ‘‘widow or widower’’ each place such term 16 appears and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 17 (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking 18 ‘‘widow or widower’’ each place such term 19 appears and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 20 (iii) in paragraph (3)— 21 (I) by striking ‘‘wife’’ and insert- 22 ing ‘‘spouse’’; and 23 (II) by striking ‘‘wife’s’’ and in- 24 serting ‘‘spouse’s’’; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 31 •HR 98 IH (iv) in paragraph (6), by striking 1 ‘‘widow or widower’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 2 viving spouse’’; and 3 (v) in paragraph (7), by striking 4 ‘‘widow, widower’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving 5 spouse’’; 6 (B) in subsection (b)— 7 (i) in paragraph (1), by striking 8 ‘‘wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; and 9 (ii) in paragraph (2)— 10 (I) by striking ‘‘widow surviving 11 divorced wife, widower’’ and inserting 12 ‘‘no surviving spouse, surviving di- 13 vorced spouse’’; and 14 (II) by striking ‘‘widow or wid- 15 ower’’ each place such term appears 16 and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 17 (C) in subsection (c)— 18 (i) in paragraph (1)— 19 (I) by striking ‘‘widow, widower, 20 or parent’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving 21 spouse or parent’’; 22 (II) in clause (i), by striking 23 ‘‘widow or widower’’ and inserting 24 ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 32 •HR 98 IH (III) in clause (ii), by striking 1 ‘‘widow or widower’’ and inserting 2 ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 3 (IV) in clause (iii), by striking 4 ‘‘widow, widower, or child’’ and insert- 5 ing ‘‘surviving spouse or child’’; 6 (V) in clause (iv), by striking 7 ‘‘widow, widower’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 8 viving spouse’’; 9 (VI) in clause (v), by striking 10 ‘‘widow, widower’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 11 viving spouse’’; 12 (VII) in clause (vi), by striking 13 ‘‘widow, widower’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 14 viving spouse’’; and 15 (VIII) in the matter following 16 clause (vi), by striking ‘‘widow, wid- 17 ower, or parent’’ each place such term 18 appears and inserting ‘‘surviving 19 spouse or parent’’; and 20 (ii) in paragraph (3)— 21 (I) in subparagraph (A), by strik- 22 ing ‘‘divorced wife’’ and inserting 23 ‘‘surviving divorced spouse’’; 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00032 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 33 •HR 98 IH (II) in subparagraph (B), by 1 striking ‘‘widow’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 2 viving spouse’’; and 3 (III) in the matter following sub- 4 paragraph (B), by striking ‘‘divorced 5 wife’’ and inserting ‘‘survivor’’; 6 (D) in subsection (d)(1), by striking 7 ‘‘widow or widower’’ each place such term ap- 8 pears and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; and 9 (E) in subsection (e)(1), by striking 10 ‘‘widow or widower’’ each place such term ap- 11 pears and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 12 (6) in section 7— 13 (A) in subsection (b)(2)(B), by striking 14 ‘‘wife or divorced wife or husband’’ and insert- 15 ing ‘‘spouse or divorced spouse’’; and 16 (B) in subsection (d)(2)(i), by striking ‘‘in 17 the case of a spouse or divorced wife, had such 18 spouse’s husband or wife’’ and inserting ‘‘in the 19 case of a spouse or divorced spouse, had such 20 person’s spouse’’; and 21 (7) in section 19(a)— 22 (A) by striking ‘‘wife’s insurance benefits 23 payable to a wife, husband’s insurance benefits’’ 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 34 •HR 98 IH and inserting ‘‘spouse’s insurance benefits’’; 1 and 2 (B) by striking ‘‘widow’s insurance benefits 3 payable to a widow, widower’s insurance bene- 4 fits, mother’s insurance benefits payable to a 5 widow’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’s bene- 6 fits payable to a surviving spouse, parent’s in- 7 surance benefits payable to a surviving spouse’’. 8 (u) SMALL BUSINESS INVESTMENT ACT OF 1958.— 9 Section 503(a)(2) of the Small Business Investment Act 10 of 1958 (15 U.S.C. 697(a)(2)) is amended by striking 11 ‘‘wife, husband’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’. 12 (v) SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.—The Social Security Act 13 (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) is amended— 14 (1) in section 202— 15 (A) in subsection (b)— 16 (i) in the heading, by striking 17 ‘‘Wife’s’’ and inserting ‘‘Spouse’s’’; 18 (ii) by striking ‘‘wife’’ each place such 19 term appears and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 20 (iii) in paragraph (1)— 21 (I) by striking ‘‘(as defined in 22 section 216(b))’’; 23 (II) by striking ‘‘(as defined in 24 section 216(d))’’; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 35 •HR 98 IH (III) in subparagraph (B), by 1 striking ‘‘her’’ and inserting ‘‘such 2 spouse’s’’; 3 (IV) in subparagraph (D)(i), by 4 striking ‘‘she’’ and inserting ‘‘such 5 spouse or divorced spouse’’; 6 (V) in the matter following sub- 7 paragraph (D)(ii)(II), by inserting be- 8 fore ‘‘she’’ each place such word ap- 9 pears the following: ‘‘he or’’; 10 (VI) in subparagraph (E), by 11 striking ‘‘she’’ and inserting ‘‘such 12 spouse’’; 13 (VII) in subparagraph (G), by 14 striking ‘‘she’’ each place such term 15 appears and inserting ‘‘such spouse’’; 16 (VIII) in subparagraph (H), by 17 inserting ‘‘he or’’ before ‘‘she’’; and 18 (IX) in subparagraph (J), by 19 striking ‘‘she’’ and inserting ‘‘such 20 spouse’’; and 21 (iv) in paragraph (2)— 22 (I) by inserting before ‘‘her’’ 23 each place such term appears ‘‘his 24 or’’; and 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 36 •HR 98 IH (II) by striking ‘‘husband’’ each 1 place such term appears and inserting 2 ‘‘spouse’’; 3 (B) by striking subsection (c); 4 (C) in subsection (e)— 5 (i) in the heading, by striking ‘‘Wid- 6 ow’s’’ and inserting ‘‘Surviving spouse’s’’; 7 (ii) in paragraph (1)— 8 (I) in the matter preceding sub- 9 paragraph (A)— 10 (aa) by striking ‘‘widow (as 11 defined in section 216(c))’’ and 12 inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 13 (bb) by striking ‘‘wife (as 14 defined in section 216(d))’’ and 15 inserting ‘‘spouse’’; and 16 (cc) by striking ‘‘widow or 17 surviving divorced wife’’ and in- 18 serting ‘‘surviving spouse or sur- 19 viving divorced spouse’’; 20 (II) in subparagraph (C)— 21 (aa) in clause (i), by striking 22 ‘‘widow’s’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 23 viving spouse’s’’; 24 (bb) in clause (ii)— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 37 •HR 98 IH (AA) in the matter pre- 1 ceding subclause (I), by 2 striking ‘‘wife’s’’ and insert- 3 ing ‘‘spouse’s’’; and 4 (BB) in subclause (III), 5 by inserting ‘‘he or’’ before 6 ‘‘she’’ and by inserting ‘‘him 7 or’’ before ‘‘her’’; and 8 (cc) in clause (iii), by insert- 9 ing ‘‘father’s or’’ before ‘‘moth- 10 er’s’’; 11 (III) in the matter preceding sub- 12 paragraph (E), by striking ‘‘widow’s’’ 13 and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’s’’; 14 (IV) in subparagraph (E), by in- 15 serting before ‘‘she’’ each place such 16 word appears the following: ‘‘he or’’; 17 (V) in subparagraph (F), by in- 18 serting before ‘‘she’’ each place such 19 word appears the following: ‘‘he or’’; 20 and 21 (VI) in the matter following sub- 22 paragraph (F)(ii) by inserting before 23 ‘‘she’’ each place such word appears 24 the following: ‘‘he or’’; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00037 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 38 •HR 98 IH (iii) in paragraph (2)— 1 (I) by striking ‘‘widow’s insur- 2 ance’’ each place such term appears 3 and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’s in- 4 surance’’; 5 (II) by striking ‘‘surviving di- 6 vorced wife’’ each place such term ap- 7 pears and inserting ‘‘surviving di- 8 vorced spouse’’; and 9 (III) by striking ‘‘widow’’ each 10 place such term appears and inserting 11 ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 12 (iv) in paragraph (3)— 13 (I) by striking ‘‘widow’’ each 14 place such term appears and inserting 15 ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 16 (II) by striking ‘‘surviving di- 17 vorced wife’’ each place such term ap- 18 pears and inserting ‘‘surviving di- 19 vorced spouse’’; and 20 (III) by inserting ‘‘he or’’ before 21 ‘‘she’’; 22 (v) in paragraph (4)— 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00038 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 39 •HR 98 IH (I) by inserting before ‘‘her’’ 1 each place such term appears the fol- 2 lowing: ‘‘his or’’; 3 (II) by inserting before ‘‘she’’ 4 each place such term appears the fol- 5 lowing ‘‘he or’’; 6 (III) by striking ‘‘widow or sur- 7 viving divorced wife’’ and inserting 8 ‘‘surviving spouse or surviving di- 9 vorced spouse’’; and 10 (IV) in subparagraph (B), by in- 11 serting ‘‘or father’s’’ before ‘‘insur- 12 ance’’; 13 (vi) in paragraph (5)— 14 (I) by striking ‘‘widow or sur- 15 viving divorced wife’’ each place such 16 term appears and inserting ‘‘surviving 17 spouse or surviving divorced spouse’’; 18 and 19 (II) in subparagraph (A)— 20 (aa) in clause (i), by insert- 21 ing ‘‘he or’’ before ‘‘she’’; and 22 (bb) in clause (ii)(I), by in- 23 serting ‘‘his or’’ before ‘‘her’’; 24 and 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 40 •HR 98 IH (vii) in the matter following para- 1 graph (7)(B), by striking ‘‘she’’ and insert- 2 ing ‘‘such individual’’; 3 (D) by striking subsection (f); 4 (E) in the matter following subsection 5 (i)(2), by striking ‘‘wife’s or husband’s’’ and in- 6 serting ‘‘spouse’s’’; 7 (F) in subsection (j)(4)(B)(i)— 8 (i) by striking ‘‘widow, surviving di- 9 vorced wife or widower’’ and inserting 10 ‘‘surviving spouse or surviving divorced 11 spouse’’; 12 (ii) by striking ‘‘widow or widower’’ 13 and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; and 14 (iii) by striking ‘‘surviving divorced 15 wife’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving divorced 16 spouse’’; 17 (G) in subsection (q)— 18 (i) in paragraph (1)— 19 (I) by striking ‘‘wife’s, husband’s, 20 widow’s, or widower’s’’ and inserting 21 ‘‘spouse’s, or surviving spouse’s’’; and 22 (II) in subparagraph (A)— 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 41 •HR 98 IH (aa) by striking ‘‘wife’s or 1 husband’s’’ and inserting 2 ‘‘spouse’s’’; and 3 (bb) by striking ‘‘widow’s or 4 widower’s’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 5 viving spouse’s’’; 6 (ii) in paragraph (3)— 7 (I) in subparagraph (A)— 8 (aa) by striking ‘‘wife’s, hus- 9 band’s, widow’s, or widower’s’’ 10 and inserting ‘‘spouse’s or sur- 11 viving spouse’s’’; 12 (bb) by striking ‘‘wife’s or 13 husband’s’’ and inserting 14 ‘‘spouse’s’’; and 15 (cc) by striking ‘‘widow’s or 16 widower’s’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 17 viving spouse’s’’; 18 (II) in the matter following sub- 19 paragraph (A)(ii), by striking ‘‘wife’s, 20 husband’s, widow’s, or widower’s’’ and 21 inserting ‘‘spouse’s or surviving 22 spouse’s’’; 23 (III) in subparagraph (B), by 24 striking ‘‘wife’s or husband’s’’ each 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 42 •HR 98 IH place such term appears and inserting 1 ‘‘spouse’s’’; 2 (IV) in subparagraph (C), by 3 striking ‘‘wife’s, husband’s, widow’s, 4 or widower’s’’ each place such term 5 appears and inserting ‘‘spouse’s or 6 surviving spouse’s’’; 7 (V) in subparagraph (D), by 8 striking ‘‘wife’s, husband’s, widow’s, 9 or widower’s’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’s 10 or surviving spouse’s’’; and 11 (VI) in subparagraph (E), by 12 striking ‘‘widow’s or widower’s’’ each 13 place such term appears and inserting 14 ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 15 (iii) in paragraph (5)— 16 (I) by striking ‘‘wife’s or hus- 17 band’s’’ each place such word appears 18 and inserting ‘‘spouse’s’’; and 19 (II) in subparagraph (D), by 20 striking ‘‘widow’s or widower’s’’ and 21 inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’s’’; 22 (iv) in paragraph (6)— 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00042 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 43 •HR 98 IH (I) by striking ‘‘wife’s, husband’s, 1 widow’s, or widower’s’’ and inserting 2 ‘‘spouse’s, or surviving spouse’s’’; and 3 (II) in subparagraph (A)— 4 (aa) in clause (ii), by strik- 5 ing ‘‘wife’s or husband’s’’ and in- 6 serting ‘‘spouse’s’’; and 7 (bb) in clause (iii), by strik- 8 ing ‘‘widow’s or widower’s’’ and 9 inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’s’’; 10 (v) in paragraph (7)— 11 (I) by striking ‘‘wife’s, husband’s, 12 widow’s, or widower’s’’ and inserting 13 ‘‘spouse’s, or surviving spouse’s’’; 14 (II) by striking ‘‘wife’s or hus- 15 band’s’’ each place such term appears 16 and inserting ‘‘spouse’s’’; and 17 (III) as amended by subclause 18 (I), by striking ‘‘widow’s or wid- 19 ower’s’’ each place such term appears 20 and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’s’’; 21 (vi) in paragraph (9)— 22 (I) in subparagraph (A), by strik- 23 ing ‘‘old-age insurance benefits, wife’s 24 insurance benefits, and husband’s in- 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 44 •HR 98 IH surance benefits’’ and inserting ‘‘old- 1 age insurance benefits and spouse’s 2 insurance benefits’’; and 3 (II) in subparagraph (B), by 4 striking ‘‘widow’s insurance benefits 5 and widower’s insurance benefits’’ and 6 inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’s insur- 7 ance benefits’’; and 8 (vii) in paragraph (10)— 9 (I) in subparagraph (A), by strik- 10 ing ‘‘old-age, wife’s, and husband’s’’ 11 and inserting ‘‘old-age and spouse’s’’; 12 and 13 (II) by striking ‘‘widow’s and 14 widower’s’’ each place such term ap- 15 pears and inserting ‘‘surviving 16 spouse’s’’; 17 (H) in subsection (r)— 18 (i) in the heading, by striking ‘‘Wife’s 19 or Husband’s’’ and inserting ‘‘Spouse’s’’; 20 (ii) in paragraph (1), by striking 21 ‘‘wife’s or husband’s’’ each place such term 22 appears and inserting ‘‘spouse’s’’; and 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00044 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 45 •HR 98 IH (iii) in paragraph (2), by striking 1 ‘‘wife’s or husband’s’’ and inserting 2 ‘‘spouse’s’’; and 3 (I) in subsection (t)(11)(B), by striking ‘‘a 4 wife, a husband, a widow, a widower, a divorced 5 wife, a divorced husband, a surviving divorced 6 wife, a surviving divorced husband’’ and insert- 7 ing ‘‘a spouse, a surviving spouse, a surviving 8 divorced spouse’’; 9 (2) in section 203— 10 (A) in subsection (c)— 11 (i) in paragraph (2)— 12 (I) by striking ‘‘wife or husband’’ 13 and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; and 14 (II) by striking ‘‘wife’s or hus- 15 band’s’’ each place such term appears 16 and inserting ‘‘spouse’s’’; 17 (ii) in paragraph (3), by striking 18 ‘‘widow or widower’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 19 viving divorced spouse’’; and 20 (iii) in the matter following subpara- 21 graph (4)— 22 (I) by striking ‘‘widow’s or wid- 23 ower’s’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving 24 spouse’s’’; and 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00045 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 46 •HR 98 IH (II) by striking ‘‘widow, surviving 1 divorced wife, widower, or surviving 2 divorced husband’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 3 viving spouse or surviving divorced 4 spouse’’; 5 (B) in subsection (d)— 6 (i) by striking ‘‘wife’s, husband’s, or 7 child’s’’ each place such term appears and 8 inserting ‘‘spouse’s or child’s’’; and 9 (ii) by striking ‘‘wife, divorced wife, 10 husband, divorced husband’’ and inserting 11 ‘‘spouse or divorced spouse’’; and 12 (C) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ‘‘wid- 13 ow’s or widower’s’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving 14 spouse’s’’; 15 (3) in section 205— 16 (A) in subsection (b)— 17 (i) in paragraph (1), by striking 18 ‘‘wife, divorced wife, widow, surviving di- 19 vorced wife, surviving divorced mother, 20 surviving divorced father, husband, di- 21 vorced husband, widower, surviving di- 22 vorced husband’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse, di- 23 vorced spouse, surviving spouse, surviving 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00046 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 47 •HR 98 IH divorced spouse, surviving mother, sur- 1 viving father’’; and 2 (ii) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking 3 ‘‘child’s, widow’s, or widower’s’’ and insert- 4 ing ‘‘child’s or surviving spouse’s’’; 5 (B) in subsection (c)(1)(C), by striking 6 ‘‘spouse, surviving divorced wife, surviving di- 7 vorced husband’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse, sur- 8 viving divorced spouse’’; 9 (C) in subsection (i), by striking ‘‘wife or 10 husband’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 11 (D) in subsection (j)(8), by striking 12 ‘‘child’s, widow’s, or widower’s’’ and inserting 13 ‘‘child’s or surviving spouse’s’’; and 14 (E) in subsection (q)(5)— 15 (i) by striking ‘‘wife, husband or 16 child’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse or child’’; and 17 (ii) by striking ‘‘widow or widower’’ 18 and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’’; 19 (4) in section 215(h)— 20 (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘him, his 21 wife, and his children, or, if he has died, to his 22 widow and children’’ and inserting ‘‘him, his 23 spouse, and his children, or, if he has died, to 24 his surviving spouse and children’’; and 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00047 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 48 •HR 98 IH (B) in paragraph (2)— 1 (i) by striking ‘‘himself, his wife, and 2 his children’’ and inserting ‘‘himself, his 3 spouse, and his children’’; and 4 (ii) by striking ‘‘his widow, if any’’ 5 and inserting ‘‘his surviving spouse, if 6 any’’; 7 (5) in section 216— 8 (A) in subsection (a), by adding at the end 9 the following new paragraph: 10 ‘‘(3) The term ‘surviving divorced spouse’ 11 means a surviving divorced wife or a surviving di- 12 vorced husband.’’; 13 (B) in subsection (d), by adding at the end 14 the following new paragraph: 15 ‘‘(9) The term ‘divorced spouse’ means a di- 16 vorced wife or a divorced husband.’’; and 17 (C) in subsection (l)(2)— 18 (i) by striking ‘‘old-age, wife’s, or hus- 19 band’s’’ and inserting ‘‘old-age or 20 spouse’s’’; and 21 (ii) by striking ‘‘widow’s or wid- 22 ower’s’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’s’’; 23 (6) in section 222— 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00048 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 49 •HR 98 IH (A) in subsection (c)(1), by striking 1 ‘‘202(d), 202(e), or 202(f)’’ and inserting 2 ‘‘202(d), or 202(e)’’; and 3 (B) in subsection (d)(1)— 4 (i) in subparagraph (C), by striking 5 ‘‘widow’s’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving 6 spouse’s’’; and 7 (ii) by striking subparagraph (D); 8 (7) in section 225(a), by striking ‘‘or that a 9 widow or surviving divorced wife who has not at- 10 tained age 60 and is entitled to benefits under sec- 11 tion 202(e), or that a widower or surviving divorced 12 husband who has not attained age 60 and is entitled 13 to benefits under section 202(f)’’ and inserting ‘‘or 14 that a surviving spouse or surviving divorced spouse 15 who has not attained age 60 and is entitled to bene- 16 fits under section 202(e)’’; 17 (8) in section 226— 18 (A) in subsection (b)(2)(A)(iii), by striking 19 ‘‘widow’s insurance benefits under section 20 202(e) or widower’s insurance benefits under 21 section 202(f)’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving 22 spouse’s insurance benefits under section 23 202(e)’’; 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 50 •HR 98 IH (B) in the matter following subsection 1 (b)(2)(C)(ii)(II), by striking ‘‘in the last sen- 2 tence of section 202(e)(1), and in the last sen- 3 tence of section 202(f)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘and 4 in the last sentence of section 202(e)(1)’’; and 5 (C) in subsection (e)— 6 (i) in paragraph (1)— 7 (I) in subparagraph (A)— 8 (aa) by striking ‘‘widows 9 and widowers’’ and inserting 10 ‘‘surviving spouses’’; 11 (bb) in clause (i), by striking 12 ‘‘sections 202(e)(1)(B)(ii), 13 202(e)(4), 202(f)(1)(B)(ii), and 14 202(f)(4)’’ and inserting ‘‘sec- 15 tions 202(e)(1)(B)(ii) and 16 202(e)(4)’’; and 17 (cc) in clause (ii), by strik- 18 ing ‘‘and the phrase ‘before he 19 attained age 60’ in the matter 20 following subparagraph (F) of 21 section 202(f)(1) shall each’’ and 22 inserting ‘‘shall’’; and 23 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00050 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 51 •HR 98 IH (II) in subparagraph (B), by 1 striking ‘‘widow’s or widower’s’’ and 2 inserting ‘‘surviving spouse’s’’; 3 (ii) in paragraph (2)— 4 (I) by striking ‘‘widow’s insur- 5 ance benefits or widower’s insurance 6 benefits’’ each place such term ap- 7 pears and inserting ‘‘surviving 8 spouse’s insurance benefits’’; and 9 (II) by striking ‘‘widow’s or wid- 10 ower’s’’ and inserting ‘‘surviving 11 spouse’s’’; 12 (iii) in paragraph (3)— 13 (I) by striking ‘‘any disabled 14 widow aged 50 or older who is entitled 15 to mother’s insurance benefits (and 16 who would have been entitled to wid- 17 ow’s insurance benefits by reason of 18 disability if she had filed for such wid- 19 ow’s benefits), and any disabled wid- 20 ower aged 50 or older who is entitled 21 to father’s insurance benefits (and 22 who would have been entitled to wid- 23 ower’s insurance benefits by reason of 24 disability if he had filed for such wid- 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 52 •HR 98 IH ower’s benefits)’’ and inserting ‘‘any 1 disabled surviving spouse aged 50 or 2 older who is entitled to mother’s or fa- 3 ther’s insurance benefits (and who 4 would have been entitled to surviving 5 spouse’s insurance benefits by reason 6 of disability if he or she had filed for 7 such surviving spouse’s benefits)’’; 8 and 9 (II) by striking ‘‘such widow’s or 10 widower’s’’ and inserting ‘‘such sur- 11 viving spouse’s’’; and 12 (iv) in paragraph (4), by striking 13 ‘‘widow’s or widower’s insurance benefits 14 under section 202(e) or (f)’’ and inserting 15 ‘‘surviving spouse’s benefits under section 16 202(e)’’; 17 (9) in section 227— 18 (A) by striking ‘‘section 202(e) or section 19 202(f)’’ each place such term appears and in- 20 serting ‘‘section 202(e)’’; and 21 (B) by striking ‘‘section 202(b) or section 22 202(c)’’ each place such term appears and in- 23 serting ‘‘section 202(b)’’; 24 (10) in section 228— 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 53 •HR 98 IH (A) in subsection (c)— 1 (i) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘hus- 2 band and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married 3 couple’’; 4 (ii) in paragraph (3), by striking 5 ‘‘husband or wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married 6 couple’’; 7 (iii) in paragraph (6), by striking 8 ‘‘husband and wife both of whom’’ and in- 9 serting ‘‘married couple of which both 10 spouses’’; and 11 (iv) in paragraph (8), by striking ‘‘of 12 a husband and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘of a 13 married couple’’; and 14 (B) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘husband 15 or wife’’ each place such term appears and in- 16 serting ‘‘spouse’’; 17 (11) in section 1107, by striking ‘‘wife, hus- 18 band, widow, widower, divorced wife, divorced hus- 19 band, surviving divorced wife, surviving divorced 20 husband’’ each place such term appears and insert- 21 ing ‘‘spouse, surviving spouse, divorced spouse, sur- 22 viving divorced spouse’’; 23 (12) in section 1128(j)(1)(A), by striking ‘‘hus- 24 band or wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00053 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 54 •HR 98 IH (13) in section 1611(e)(3)— 1 (A) by striking ‘‘husband and wife are’’ 2 and inserting ‘‘married couple is’’; and 3 (B) as amended by subparagraph (A), by 4 striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ each place such 5 term appears and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; 6 (14) in subsection 1614(b)— 7 (A) by striking ‘‘husband or wife’’ and in- 8 serting ‘‘spouse’’; and 9 (B) by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ and 10 inserting ‘‘a married couple’’; and 11 (15) in section 1631(b)(1)(A)(i), by striking 12 ‘‘husband or wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’. 13 (w) TITLE 1.—Section 7 of title 1, United States 14 Code, is amended by striking ‘‘one man and one woman 15 as husband and wife, and the word ‘spouse’ refers only 16 to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife’’ 17 and inserting ‘‘two people as spouses’’. 18 (x) TITLE 5.—Title 5, United States Code, is amend- 19 ed— 20 (1) in section 2108(3)— 21 (A) in subparagraph (E), by striking ‘‘wife 22 or husband’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 23 (B) by amending subparagraph (F) to read 24 as follows: 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00054 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 55 •HR 98 IH ‘‘(F) the parent of an individual who lost 1 his life under honorable conditions while serving 2 in the armed forces during a period named by 3 paragraph (1)(A) of this section;’’; and 4 (C) by amending subparagraph (G) to read 5 as follows: 6 ‘‘(G) the parent of a service-connected per- 7 manently and totally disabled veteran; and’’; 8 (2) in section 3110(a)(3), by striking ‘‘husband, 9 wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 10 (3) in section 5561(3)(A), by striking ‘‘wife’’ 11 and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 12 (4) in section 8110(a)— 13 (A) in paragraph (1)— 14 (i) in the matter before subparagraph 15 (A), by striking ‘‘wife’’ and inserting 16 ‘‘spouse’’; 17 (ii) in subparagraph (A), by striking 18 ‘‘she’’ and inserting ‘‘the spouse’’; 19 (iii) in subparagraph (B)— 20 (I) by striking ‘‘she’’ and insert- 21 ing ‘‘the spouse’’; and 22 (II) by striking ‘‘her’’ and insert- 23 ing ‘‘the spouse’s’’; and 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00055 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 56 •HR 98 IH (iv) in subparagraph (C), by striking 1 ‘‘her’’ and inserting ‘‘the spouse’s’’; 2 (B) by striking paragraph (2); 3 (C) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and 4 (4) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respectively; and 5 (D) as amended by subparagraph (C), in 6 the matter following paragraph (3), by striking 7 ‘‘paragraph (3)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph 8 (2)’’; 9 (5) in section 8133, in the matter following 10 subsection (b)(3), by striking ‘‘husband or wife’’ and 11 inserting ‘‘spouse’’; and 12 (6) in the matter following section 13 8443(b)(3)(E), by striking ‘‘wife or husband’’ each 14 place such term appears and inserting ‘‘spouse’’. 15 (y) TITLE 10.—Section 701(j)(1) of title 10, United 16 States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘wife’’ and inserting 17 ‘‘spouse’’. 18 (z) TITLE 11.—Section 522(b)(1) of title 11, United 19 States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ 20 and inserting ‘‘married to one another’’. 21 (aa) TITLE 18.—Section 879(b)(1)(A) of title 18, 22 United States Code, is amended— 23 (1) by striking ‘‘wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’; 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS 57 •HR 98 IH (2) by inserting after ‘‘during his’’ the fol- 1 lowing: ‘‘or her’’; 2 (3) by striking ‘‘widow’’ and inserting ‘‘sur- 3 viving spouse’’; and 4 (4) by inserting before ‘‘her death’’ the fol- 5 lowing: ‘‘his or’’. 6 (bb) TITLE 28.—Section 3014(a) of title 28, United 7 States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘husband and wife’’ 8 and inserting ‘‘married to one another’’. 9 (cc) TITLE 38.—Section 101 of title 38, United 10 States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘of the opposite sex’’ 11 each place such term appears. 12 (dd) TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT.—Section 31 13 of the Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. 31) 14 is amended by striking ‘‘wife’’ and inserting ‘‘spouse’’. 15 (ee) WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT OF 1998.—Sec- 16 tion 101(15) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 17 U.S.C. 2801(15)) is amended— 18 (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘husband, 19 wife,’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’; and 20 (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘husband 21 and wife’’ and inserting ‘‘married couple’’. 22 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:44 Jan 07, 2017 Jkt 069200 PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H98.IH H98 SSpencer on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with BILLS