[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3517 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3517

 To amend the Passport Act of 1920 to waive the collection of passport 
 fees to replace passports that were lost, damaged, or destroyed as a 
               result of major disasters or emergencies.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 29, 2011

  Mr. Owens 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 waive the collection of passport 
 fees to replace passports that were lost, damaged, or destroyed as a 
               result of major disasters or emergencies.

    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 ``Passport Recovery Assistance Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. WAIVER OF PASSPORT FEES RELATING TO EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS.

    Subsection (a) of section 1 of the Passport Act of 1920 (22 U.S.C. 
214) is amended by inserting before the last sentence the following new 
sentence: ``No passport fee shall be collected from an individual to 
replace an unexpired passport that was lost, damaged, or destroyed as a 
result of an event that resulted in the President declaring, pursuant 
to section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170), that a major disaster or emergency 
exists relating to such event.''.
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