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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3860 
To authorize the revocation or denial of passports to individuals affiliated 
with foreign terrorist organizations, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 10, 2025 
Mrs. BIGGS of South Carolina (for herself, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. STUTZMAN, Mr. 
STEUBE, Mr. MCGUIRE, Mr. MCDOWELL, Mr. ZINKE, Mr. MOORE of 
Alabama, and Mr. CARTER of Georgia) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To authorize the revocation or denial of passports to individ-
uals affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘No Passports for Ter-
rorists and Traffickers Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. REVOCATION OR DENIAL OF PASSPORTS TO INDI-
VIDUALS AFFILIATED WITH FOREIGN TER-
RORIST 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 TO 
INDIVIDUALS 
PROVIDING 
MATERIAL 
SUP-
PORT FOR TERRORISM. 
‘‘(a) INELIGIBILITY.— 
‘‘(1) ISSUANCE.—Subject to subsection (b), the 
Secretary of State shall refuse to issue a passport to 
any individual— 
‘‘(A) has been charged with or convicted of 
a violation of section 2339A or 2339B of title 
18, United States Code; or 
‘‘(B) whom the Secretary determines has 
knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise 
provided material support to an organization 
the Secretary has designated as a foreign ter-
rorist organization pursuant to section 219 of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1189). 
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denial or revocation not later than 60 days after receiving 
notice of such denial or revocation. 
‘‘(c) RIGHT TO RESTORATION.—In the event that an 
individual described in paragraph (1) demonstrates during 
a hearing described in subsection (b) that the individual 
has been acquitted of an act described in that paragraph, 
or the Secretary otherwise changes a determination de-
scribed in subparagraph (B) of such paragraph, the Sec-
retary may re-issue a passport to such individual. 
‘‘(d) 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 pursu-
ant 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 para-
graph (1) may be submitted in classified or unclassi-
fied form. 
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‘‘(e) DEFINITION.—In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘passport’ includes a passport 
card; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘material support’ means the pro-
vision of any property, tangible or intangible, or 
service— 
‘‘(A) including currency or monetary in-
struments or financial securities, financial serv-
ices, lodging, training, expert advice or assist-
ance, safehouses, false documentation or identi-
fication, communications equipment, facilities, 
weapons, lethal substances, explosives, per-
sonnel (1 or more individuals who may be or in-
clude oneself), and transportation; and 
‘‘(B) excluding medicine or religious mate-
rials. 
‘‘(f) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed— 
‘‘(1) or applied so as to abridge the exercise of 
rights guaranteed under the first amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States; or 
‘‘(2) to limit the Secretary’s ability to revoke a 
passport. 
‘‘(g) SEVERABILITY.—If any provision of this section 
or the application of such provision is held by a Federal 
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court to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act and 
the application of such provisions to any other person or 
circumstance shall not be affected.’’. 
Æ 
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