Community Passport Services Access Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- +21
- Latest action
- Jan 9, 2026
What it does
The Community Passport Services Access Act would amend the Passport Act of 1920 to allow certain public libraries to serve as passport acceptance facilities and collect and retain the execution fee for passport applications, provided they meet State Department regulations. It specifically authorizes public libraries organized as non-governmental, non-profit, charitable, or trust entities to perform this function. The bill also requires the Secretary of State to authorize within 30 days of enactment any public library that previously served as a passport acceptance facility and was compliant with regulations, and to submit a compliance report to Congress. A conforming amendment updates…
AI summary · The lawmakers haven’t published an official summary of this bill yet, so 52 wrote this one from the bill’s text.
Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
Floor (Not started)
Law (Not started)
What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
The lawmakers who put their names on it, lead sponsors first.
- John Joyce
- April McClain Delaney
- Brian Fitzpatrick
- Carol Miller
- Chris Deluzio
- Chrissy Houlahan
- Don Bacon
- Glenn Thompson
- J. Hill
- Jahana Hayes
- James Himes
- Lloyd Smucker
- Madeleine Dean
- Mary Scanlon
- Michael Lawler
- Nicolas LaLota
- Nicole Malliotakis
- Patrick Ryan
- Paul Tonko
- Robert Bresnahan
- Robert Latta
- Rosa DeLauro
- Sarah Elfreth
- Susie Lee
- Thomas Kean
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.