Legislation· Mar 2024Sponsored by Darrell E. Issa (R)
Passport System Reform and Backlog Prevention Act
Would have let the State Department hire extra staff and add online and app passport tools.
Tradeoff
Would have let the State Department hire up to 100 temporary contract workers through . Would also have required new online renewal, notification, and app tools within two to four years.
What's in it
The House passed this bill by on March 19, 2024. The Senate never voted on it before the Congress ended, so the bill expired.
House
Introduced
(Dec 6, 2023)
House
Committee on Foreign Affairs(Dec 6, 2023)
House
The committee voted to send it to the floor
Reported 46 - 0(Dec 13, 2023)
House
Passage of the bill
Passed by (Mar 19, 2024)
No individual votes were recorded.
Senate
Received from the House
on Foreign Relations(Mar 20, 2024)
- Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL)
- Jim Costa (D-CA)
- Nikema Williams (D-GA)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY)
- Warren Davidson (R-OH)
- Jenniffer Rescom. González-Colón (R-PR)
- Bradley Scott Schneider (D-IL)
- Mike Collins (R-GA)
- Katie Porter (D-CA)
- Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL)
- Dina Titus (D-NV)
- Alma S. Adams (D-NC)
- Derrick Van Orden (R-WI)
- Brandon Williams (R-NY)
- Richard Hudson (R-NC)
- Jesus G. "Chuy" Garcia (D-IL)
- Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
- Roger Williams (R-TX)
- Grace Meng (D-NY)
- Hillary J. Scholten (D-MI)
- Lloyd Smucker (R-PA)
- Clay Higgins (R-LA)
- Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ)
- Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR)
- Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ)
- Colin Z. Allred (D-TX)
- Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA)
- Thomas H. Kean (R-NJ)
- Michael R. Turner (R-OH)
- Joaquin Castro (D-TX)
- Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
- Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
- Nick LaLota (R-NY)