[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2847 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2847

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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 2019

    Mr. Mitchell (for himself, Ms. Spanberger, Mr. Wilson of South 
 Carolina, and Mr. Connolly) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 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.

    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 ``No Passport Fees for Heroes' 
Families Act''.

SEC. 2. WAIVER OF PASSPORT FEES FOR CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS.

    Section 1 of the Passport Act of June 4, 1920 (22 U.S.C. 214) is 
amended, in the third sentence, by inserting ``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;'' after ``funeral or memorial 
service for such member;''.
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