Passport Emergency Extension Act of 2021
This bill requires the Department of State to establish an expedited procedure for providing individuals who wish to use their U.S. passport that expired during the COVID-19 emergency (or that is scheduled to expire by March 31, 2022) with a marker to be affixed to such passport indicating a renewal or extension of validity through July 31, 2022.
To require the Secretary of State to establish an expedited procedure 
to renew or extend the period of validity of certain passports, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 Emergency Extension Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. EXPEDITED PROCEDURE TO RENEW OR EXTEND PERIOD OF VALIDITY OF 
              CERTAIN PASSPORTS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding the limitation described in 
section 2 of the Act of July 3, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 217a), the Secretary of 
State shall, not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, establish an expedited procedure to permit individuals who 
wish to use their United States passport that expired at any time 
during the COVID-19 emergency or are scheduled to expire by March 31, 
2022, to receive a notation or other marker to be affixed to such 
passport to indicate a renewal or extension, as the case may be, of 
such validity through July 31, 2022.
    (b) International Cooperation.--The Secretary of State shall make 
every effort to inform appropriate foreign counterparts of the renewal 
or extension, as the case may be, of the period of validity of an 
otherwise expired or expiring passport under subsection (a).
    (c) Treatment.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall treat a 
passport with a renewed or extended period of validity under subsection 
(a) as if such passport is valid through July 31, 2022, for purposes of 
immigration and border controls.
    (d) Termination.--The authority provided to the Secretary of State 
by subsection (a) shall expire on January 31, 2022.
    (e) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in subsection (a) may be 
construed as affecting in any manner the procedure through which an 
individual submits an application to renew a passport as in existence 
on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act.
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Passport Emergency Extension Act of 2021
To require the Secretary of State to establish an expedited procedure to renew or extend the period of validity of certain passports, and for other purposes.
Passport Emergency Extension Act of 2021
Rep. Smith, Christopher H.