Ensuring Children Receive Support Act
U.S. Congress · HR6903 ·
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What the bill says
Introduced 2025-12-18. Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Summary (plain-language)
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 .
Sponsors
- Beth Van Duyne (primary)
- Jimmy Panetta
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H.R. 6903, Ensuring Children Receive Support Act
— 2026-02-05
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on January 14, 2026
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What politicians say
No linked claims or utterances yet — no one on record has cited this measure to justify a public argument.
Action History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. |
| 2026-04-27 | Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 119-624, Part I. |
| 2026-04-27 | Committee on Foreign Affairs discharged. |
| 2026-04-27 | Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 541. |
| 2026-04-27 | Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. |
| 2026-04-27 | Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3113-3114) |
| 2026-04-27 | DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6903. |
| 2026-04-27 | Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3113) |
| 2026-04-27 | On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3113) |
| 2026-04-27 | Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| 2026-01-14 | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held |
| 2026-01-14 | Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 40 - 2. |
| 2025-12-18 | Introduced in House |
| 2025-12-18 | Referred 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. |