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No Passport Fees for Heroes’ Families Act

H.R. 8778 · 118th Congress · Jun 18, 2024 · 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

Paragraph (2) of section 1(a) of the Passport Act of June 4, 1920 (22 U.S.C. 214) is amended—
(1)
by redesignating subparagraphs (D) and (E) as subparagraphs (E) and (F), respectively;
(2)
by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following new subparagraph:

“(D) 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;”

(3)
in subparagraph (E), as so redesignated, by inserting “or” after the semicolon.