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                   CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

U                             COST ESTIMATE
                                                                 October 11, 2017


                                    H.R. 425
                     FTO Passport Revocation Act of 2017

             As ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
                               on September 28, 2017


 H.R. 425 would authorize the Department of State to deny a passport or revoke an
 existing one for any U.S. citizen that the department finds has helped a foreign terrorist
 organization. The department would be required to report to the Congress each time it
 uses that authority.

 The department has used broader authorities under current law to deny or revoke
 passports in such cases; the bill would provide overlapping specific authority. Citizens
 who have been denied a passport or had one revoked are entitled to an administrative
 hearing and the department bears the costs associated with such hearings. Those
 individuals may also choose to pursue legal action. Based on an analysis of information
 from the department, CBO expects that under the bill the number of passports being
 denied or revoked would not increase significantly. On that basis, CBO estimates that
 implementing the bill would cost less than $500,000 over the 2018-2022 period, subject
 to the availability of appropriated funds.

 In certain cases, citizens who have had a passport revoked may be issued a new, short-
 term passport to repatriate that person to the United States. In those instances, the citizen
 would still be required to pay the fees for a new passport. Some passport fees are
 deposited as revenues while others are retained by the department and spent. Thus, pay-
 as-you-go procedures apply because enacting H.R. 425 would affect direct spending and
 revenues. However, CBO estimates those effects would be insignificant because few
 people would be affected.

 CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 425 would not increase net direct spending or on-
 budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.

 H.R. 425 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
 Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.

 The CBO staff contact for this estimate is Sunita D'Monte. The estimate was approved
 by H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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