I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 145 
To authorize the revocation or denial of passports to individuals affiliated 
with foreign terrorist organizations, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 3, 2019 
Mr. DUNCAN (for himself, Mr. KEATING, Mr. NORMAN, Mr. POSEY, Mr. 
MEADOWS, and Mr. WEBER of Texas) 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 ‘‘FTO Passport Revoca-
tion Act of 2019’’. 
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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. 
‘‘(a) INELIGIBILITY.— 
‘‘(1) ISSUANCE.—Except as provided under 
subsection (b), the Secretary of State may refuse to 
issue a passport to any individual whom the Sec-
retary has determined has aided, assisted, abetted, 
or otherwise helped an organization the Secretary 
has designated as a foreign terrorist organization 
pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189). 
‘‘(2) REVOCATION.—The Secretary of State 
may revoke a passport previously issued to any indi-
vidual described in paragraph (1). 
‘‘(b) RIGHT OF REVIEW.—Any individual who, in ac-
cordance with this section, is denied issuance of a passport 
by the Secretary of State, or whose passport is revoked 
by the Secretary, may request a hearing before the Sec-
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retary not later than 60 days after receiving notice of such 
denial or revocation. 
‘‘(c) 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. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘pass-
port’ includes a passport card.’’. 
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