HR 5300
Cleared committee
Sets a broad package of State Department management, reporting, and foreign policy requirements, including limits on new embassy construction, passport denials for terrorism supporters, and reports on dozens of regional and global topics.
Official title: Department of State Policy Provisions Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
11-SEP-2025
Referred
11-SEP-2025
Approved by committee
18-SEP-2025
- Requires State Department notice to Congress at least 30 days before opening, closing, or relocating a diplomatic post, and requires embassies to follow a standard design unless the Secretary justifies otherwise
- Directs the Secretary of State to refuse or revoke passports for individuals who provide material support to designated terrorist organizations, with a hearing right and a 30-day reporting duty to Congress
- Terminates many existing State Department ongoing report requirements enacted before September 30, 2025, and creates a new authority to designate countries as State Sponsors of Unlawful or Wrongful Detention
- Establishes numerous regional strategies, reports, and programs covering the Arctic, Indo-Pacific, Africa, Caribbean, Nicaragua, Honduras, Haiti, and Taiwan-related visa policy
Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Introduced in House, 11-SEP-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Foreign Affairs Committee (House)
International Affairs
No cosponsors.