Ensuring Children Receive Support Act
- Last Action
- 4/28/2026
Actions
- 2026-04-28Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- 2026-04-27Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2026-04-27On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3113)
- 2026-04-27Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3113)
- 2026-04-27DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6903.
- 2026-04-27Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3113-3114)
- 2026-04-27Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- 2026-04-27Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 541.
- 2026-04-27Committee on Foreign Affairs discharged.
- 2026-04-27Committee on Foreign Affairs discharged.
- 2026-04-27Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-624, Part I.
- 2026-04-27Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-624, Part I.
- 2026-01-14Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 40 - 2.
- 2026-01-14Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- 2025-12-18Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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CRS Summary
As of 2025-12-18 (00)
Ensuring Children Receive Support Act
This bill specifies that the Department of State must revoke passports for certain individuals who fail to make child support payments.
Under current law, if the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Department of Health and Human Services receives information from a state that an individual owes more than $2,500 in child support, the State Department must refuse to issue the individual a passport and may revoke a previously issued passport. The bill specifies that the State Department must revoke a previously issued passport in these circumstances.
The bill also provides statutory authority for the State Department to allow such an individual to be issued a limited-duration passport for direct return to the United States.
For more information about this bill, see CRS Insight IN12660.
Cosponsors (1)
- Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)
Subjects
- Separation, divorce, custody, support
- Visas and passports
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