PASS Act of 2010

Passport Acquisition Savings and Security Act of 2010 or the PASS Act of 2010 - Provides for the payment of passport fees directly to the Department of State rather than to the U.S. Treasury.

Expresses the sense of Congress that new revenues directed to the Department should be used to reduce passport costs for consumers.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5960 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5960

   To direct the payment of passport fees to the Department of State.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2010

   Mr. Lee of New York (for himself, Mr. Higgins, and Mr. Marchant) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                            Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the payment of passport fees to the Department of State.

    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 ``Passport Acquisition Savings and 
Security Act of 2010'' or the ``PASS Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. PAYMENT OF PASSPORT FEES.

    (a) In General.--Section 1(a) of the Act of June 4, 1920 (22 U.S.C. 
214(a)), is amended, in the first sentence, by striking ``into the 
Treasury of the United States'' and inserting ``to the Department of 
State''.
    (b) Retention of Fees.--Any amount collected by the Department of 
State in fiscal year 2011 and each fiscal year thereafter as a fee for 
visas, passports, or other consular services may be credited as an 
offsetting collection to the appropriate Department of State 
appropriation, to remain available until expended, for the purpose of 
meeting the costs of providing such services and shall be available for 
the same purposes as the appropriation to which such amounts are 
credited.
    (c) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that new 
revenues directed to the Department of State under this Act should be 
used to reduce the costs of passports for consumers.
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