Ensuring Children Receive Support Act
Summary
Ensuring Children Receive Support Act
This bill specifies that the Department of State must revoke passports for certain individuals who fail to make child support payments.
Under current law, if the Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Department of Health and Human Services receives information from a state that an individual owes more than $2,500 in child support, the State Department must refuse to issue the individual a passport and may revoke a previously issued passport. The bill specifies that the State Department must revoke a previously issued passport in these circumstances.
The bill also provides statutory authority for the State Department to allow such an individual to be issued a limited-duration passport for direct return to the United States.
For more information about this bill, see CRS Insight IN12660.
Timeline
- Apr 28, 2026Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- Apr 27, 2026Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Apr 27, 2026On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3113)
- Apr 27, 2026Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3113)
- Apr 27, 2026DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6903.
- Apr 27, 2026Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3113-3114)
- Apr 27, 2026Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- Apr 27, 2026Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 541.
- Apr 27, 2026Committee on Foreign Affairs discharged.
- Apr 27, 2026Committee on Foreign Affairs discharged.
- Apr 27, 2026Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-624, Part I.
- Apr 27, 2026Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-624, Part I.
- Jan 14, 2026Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 40 - 2.
- Jan 14, 2026Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Dec 18, 2025Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Dec 18, 2025Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Dec 18, 2025Introduced in House
- Dec 18, 2025Introduced in House