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No Passport Fees for Heroes’ Families Act

H.R. 2847 · 116th Congress · May 20, 2019 · Lineage

A BILL

To waive the fee for the issuance of a passport for a family member of a member of the Armed Forces who is in a hospital or medical facility abroad, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “No Passport Fees for Heroes’ Families Act”.

Sec. 2 Waiver of passport fees for certain individuals

Section 1 of the Passport Act of June 4, 1920 (22 U.S.C. 214) is amended, in the third sentence, by inserting “from a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, parent, grandparent, brother, or sister of a member of the Armed Forces proceeding abroad to visit such member in a hospital or other medical facility;” after “funeral or memorial service for such member;”.