Passports for Purple Hearts Act

Passports for Purple Hearts Act

This bill exempts Purple Heart recipients from fees associated with obtaining a passport.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8493 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8493

  To amend the Passport Act of 1920 to exempt from the collection of 
 certain passport fees an individual who was awarded the Purple Heart, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 1, 2020

 Mr. Ryan (for himself and Mr. Reschenthaler) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Passport Act of 1920 to exempt from the collection of 
 certain passport fees an individual who was awarded the Purple Heart, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Passports for Purple Hearts Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FROM CERTAIN PASSPORT FEES OF AN INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS 
              AWARDED THE PURPLE HEART.

    Section 1 of the Act of June 1, 1920 (22 U.S.C. 214; commonly 
referred to as the ``Passport Act of 1920''), is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), in the third sentence, by inserting 
        ``from an individual who was awarded the Purple Heart;'' before 
        ``or from an individual or individuals abroad''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) In this section, the term `passport' includes a passport 
card.''.
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