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Passports for Purple Hearts Act

H.R. 8493 · 116th Congress · Oct 1, 2020 · Lineage

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.

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.”