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HR 1498 114th Congress House

Hostage Recovery Improvement Act

Official title: To direct the President to designate an existing Federal officer to coordinate efforts to secure the release of United States citizens who are hostages of host… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To direct the President to designate an existing Federal officer to coordinate efforts to secure the release of United States citizens who are hostages of hostile groups or state sponsors of terrorism, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 19, 2015 See on congress.gov
International Affairs AsiaDiplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroadFederal officialsNorth KoreaTerrorism
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Mar 19, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Mar 19, 2015
Introduced in House
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 Latest action March 19, 2015

Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Hostage Recovery Improvement Act

This bill directs the President to designate an existing federal officer as the Interagency Hostage Recovery Coordinator who shall coordinate efforts to secure the release of U.S. citizens who are hostages of hostile groups or state sponsors of terrorism.

The Coordinator shall establish a federal task force with respect to each hostage situation, and report quarterly on each one.

It is the sense of Congress that the Coordinator should develop and pursue an entire range of options with respect to each hostage situation, including kinetic and non-kinetic options.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 8
All 8 Democratic 2 Republican 4
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Newhouse, Dan
Washington · Jun 19, 2015
Trott, David
· May 13, 2015
Shuster, Bill
· Apr 15, 2015
 D
Green, Al
Texas · Mar 25, 2015
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Gosar, Paul A.
Arizona · Mar 19, 2015
 D
Lynch, Stephen F.
Massachusetts · Mar 19, 2015
 R
Perry, Scott
Pennsylvania · Mar 19, 2015
 R
Zinke, Ryan K.
Montana · Mar 19, 2015
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1498: Hostage Recovery Improvement Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1498/
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"H.R. 1498: Hostage Recovery Improvement Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1498/.
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H.R. 1498, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-1498/.
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