119-hr3860

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3860 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 3860

 To authorize the revocation or denial of passports to individuals 
 affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations, and for other 
 purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 June 10, 2025

 Mrs. Biggs of South Carolina (for herself, Mr. Norman, Mr. Stutzman, 
Mr. Steube, Mr. McGuire, Mr. McDowell, Mr. Zinke, Mr. Moore of Alabama, 
 and Mr. Carter of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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 A BILL

 To authorize the revocation or denial of passports to individuals 
 affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations, 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 ``No Passports for Terrorists and 
Traffickers Act''.

SEC. 2. REVOCATION OR DENIAL OF PASSPORTS TO INDIVIDUALS AFFILIATED 
 WITH FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.

 The Act entitled ``An Act to regulate the issue and validity of 
passports, and for other purposes'', approved July 3, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 
211a et seq.), commonly known as the ``Passport Act of 1926'', is 
amended by adding at the end the following new section:

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SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO DENY OR REVOKE PASSPORT TO INDIVIDUALS PROVIDING 
 MATERIAL SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM.

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    (a) Ineligibility.--
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    (1) Issuance.--Subject to subsection

    (b) , the Secretary 
 of State shall refuse to issue a passport to any individual--
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        (A) has been charged with or convicted of a 
 violation of 

section 2339A or 2339B of title 18, United 
 States Code; or
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        (B) whom the Secretary determines has knowingly 
 aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided 
 material support to an organization the Secretary has 
 designated as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant 
 to 

section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
 (8 U.S.C. 1189).
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    (2) Revocation.--The Secretary of State shall, except as 
 provided in paragraph

    (3)
        (A) , revoke a passport previously 
 issued to any individual described in paragraph

    (1) .
 ``

    (3) Exceptions.--
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        (A) Return to the united states.--In order to 
 facilitate the return of an individual described in 
 paragraph

    (1) to the United States, the Secretary of 
 State may limit a previously issued passport or 
 passport card only for return travel to the United 
 States, or may issue a limited passport or passport 
 card that only permits return travel to the United 
 States, prior to revocation under paragraph

    (2) .
 ``
        (B) Humanitarian and emergency waiver.--The 
 Secretary of State may issue a passport to an 
 individual otherwise ineligible for such passport or 
 subject to revocation of such passport under this 
 subsection if the Secretary determines that emergency 
 circumstances or humanitarian needs apply.
 ``

    (b) Right of Review.--Any individual who, in accordance with this 
section, is denied issuance of a passport by the Secretary of State, or 
whose passport is revoked by the Secretary, may request a hearing to 
appeal such denial or revocation not later than 60 days after receiving 
notice of such denial or revocation.
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            (c) Right to Restoration.--In the event that an individual 
described in paragraph

    (1) demonstrates during a hearing described in 
subsection

    (b) that the individual has been acquitted of an act 
described in that paragraph, or the Secretary otherwise changes a 
determination described in subparagraph
        (B) of such paragraph, the 
Secretary may re-issue a passport to such individual.
 ``
            (d) Report.--
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    (1) In general.--If the Secretary of State refuses to 
 issue or revokes a passport pursuant to subsection

    (a) , or if, 
 subsequent to a hearing pursuant to subsection

    (b) , the 
 Secretary issues or cancels a revocation of a passport that was 
 the subject of such a hearing, the Secretary shall, not later 
 than 30 days after such refusal or revocation, or such issuance 
 or cancellation, submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
 the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign 
 Relations of the Senate a report on such refusal, revocation, 
 issuance, or cancellation, as the case may be.
 ``

    (2) Form.--The report submitted under paragraph

    (1) may 
 be submitted in classified or unclassified form.
 ``

    (e) 

=== Definition. ===
-In this section--
 ``

    (1) the term `passport' includes a passport card; and
 ``

    (2) the term `material support' means the provision of 
 any property, tangible or intangible, or service--
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        (A) including currency or monetary instruments or 
 financial securities, financial services, lodging, 
 training, expert advice or assistance, safehouses, 
 false documentation or identification, communications 
 equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, 
 explosives, personnel (1 or more individuals who may be 
 or include oneself), and transportation; and
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        (B) excluding medicine or religious materials.
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    (f) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed--
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    (1) or applied so as to abridge the exercise of rights 
 guaranteed under the first amendment to the Constitution of the 
 United States; or
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    (2) to limit the Secretary's ability to revoke a 
 passport.
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    (g) Severability.--If any provision of this section or the 
application of such provision is held by a Federal court to be 
unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act and the application of such 
provisions to any other person or circumstance shall not be 
affected.''.
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