First Responders Passport Act of 2017
Latest action · Apr 26, 2017 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedApr 26, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
First Responders Passport Act of 2017
This bill amends the Passport Act of 1920 to waive passport fees for an individual who is operating under a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement with the U.S. government, including a volunteer, to aid a foreign country suffering from a qualifying natural disaster.
The Department of State shall report to Congress on the number of fee waivers for the issuance of passports to first responders.
Cosponsors 23
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 26, 2017 to May 3, 2017; 17 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-VA | Barbara Comstock | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| R-OH | Bill Johnson | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| D-PA | Brendan F. Boyle | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| R-NY | Daniel M. Donovan, Jr. | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| D-MI | Debbie Dingell | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| D-VA | Donald S. Beyer, Jr. | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| R-CA | Doug LaMalfa | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| R-CA | Edward R. Royce | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| D-VA | Gerald E. Connolly | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| R-SC | Jeff Duncan | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| R-TX | Randy K. Weber, Sr. | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| R-OH | Steve Chabot | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| R-TX | Ted Poe | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| D-FL | Theodore E. Deutch | Original | Apr 26, 2017 |
| R-LA | Garret Graves | Apr 27, 2017 | |
| R-CA | Stephen Knight | Apr 28, 2017 | |
| R-FL | Bill Posey | May 1, 2017 | |
| D-CA | Eric Swalwell | May 1, 2017 | |
| R-AR | J. French Hill | May 2, 2017 | |
| R-NY | Claudia Tenney | May 3, 2017 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred Apr 26, 2017 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 26, 2017Introduced in House
- Apr 26, 2017Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 71, April 26, 2017, page H2897.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To waive the passport fees for first responders proceeding abroad to aid a foreign country suffering from a natural disaster.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- First Responders Passport Act of 2017
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 26, 2017Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
