Title: Disaster Victims Passport and ID Relief Act of 2018
Policy area: Emergency Management

Summary:
Disaster Victims Passport and ID Relief Act of 2018
This bill authorizes the President to provide a waiver of document replacement fees to an individual or household in a state that is adversely affected by a major disaster for any of the following:
The bill amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to include within the definition of "critical services" private nonprofit center-based childcare.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3055 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3055

  To waive the fees for replacement of critical documents for certain 
    individuals, and to designate child care as a critical service.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 12, 2018

  Ms. Harris introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To waive the fees for replacement of critical documents for certain 
    individuals, and to designate child care as a critical service.

    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 ``Disaster Victims Passport and ID 
Relief Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS AND HOUSEHOLDS AND NONPROFIT 
              FACILITIES.

    (a) Critical Document Fee Waiver.--Section 408(e) of the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5174(e)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Critical document fee waiver.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Notwithstanding section 1 of the 
                Passport Act of June 4, 1920 (22 U.S.C. 214) or any 
                other provision of law, the President, in consultation 
                with the Governor of a State, may provide a waiver 
                under this section to an individual or household 
                described in paragraph (1) of the following document 
                replacement fees:
                            ``(i) The passport application fee for 
                        individuals who lost their United States 
                        passport.
                            ``(ii) The file search fee for a United 
                        States passport.
                            ``(iii) The Application for Waiver of 
                        Passport and/or Visa form (Form I-193) fee.
                            ``(iv) The Permanent Resident Card 
                        replacement form (Form I-90) filing fee.
                            ``(v) The Declaration of Intention form 
                        (Form N-300) filing fee.
                            ``(vi) The Naturalization/Citizenship 
                        Document replacement form (Form N-565) filing 
                        fee.
                            ``(vii) The Employment Authorization form 
                        (Form I-765) filing fee.
                            ``(viii) The biometric service fee.
                    ``(B) Exemption from form requirement.--The 
                authority of the President to waive fees under clauses 
                (iii) through (viii) of subparagraph (A) applies 
                regardless of whether the individual or household 
                qualifies for a Form I-912 Request for Fee Waiver, or 
                any successor thereto.
                    ``(C) Exemption from assistance maximum.--The 
                assistance limit in subsection (h) shall not apply to 
                any fee waived under this paragraph.''.
    (b) Federal Assistance to Private Nonprofit Childcare Facilities.--
Section 406(a)(3)(B) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5172(a)(3)(B)) is amended by 
inserting ``(including private nonprofit center-based childcare)'' 
after ``education''.
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