[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8004 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8004

    To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to 
    eliminate the repatriation loan program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2026

 Mrs. Dingell (for herself and Mr. McGovern) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to 
    eliminate the repatriation loan program, 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 ``Leave No Americans Behind Act of 
2026''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF REPATRIATION LOANS BY DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

    Section 4 of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (22 
U.S.C. 2671) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(2)(A)(ii), by striking ``, on a 
        reimbursable basis to the maximum extent practicable, with such 
        reimbursements to be credited to the applicable Department of 
        State appropriation and to remain available until expended, 
        except that no reimbursement under this clause shall be paid 
        that is greater than the amount the person evacuated would have 
        been charged for a reasonable commercial air fare immediately 
        prior to the events giving rise to the evacuation''; and
            (2) by striking subsection (d).
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