[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 145 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 145

   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

                            January 3, 2019

   Mr. Duncan (for himself, Mr. Keating, Mr. Norman, Mr. Posey, Mr. 
 Meadows, and Mr. Weber of Texas) 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 ``FTO Passport Revocation Act of 
2019''.

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:

``SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO DENY OR REVOKE PASSPORT.

    ``(a) Ineligibility.--
            ``(1) Issuance.--Except as provided under subsection (b), 
        the Secretary of State may refuse to issue a passport to any 
        individual whom the Secretary has determined has aided, 
        assisted, abetted, or otherwise helped 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).
            ``(2) Revocation.--The Secretary of State may revoke a 
        passport previously issued to any individual described in 
        paragraph (1).
    ``(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 
before the Secretary not later than 60 days after receiving notice of 
such denial or revocation.
    ``(c) Report.--
            ``(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.
    ``(d) Definition.--In this section, the term `passport' includes a 
passport card.''.
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