State Department must review exit plans after crises and check airline prices.
H.R. 10714 — Strengthening Emergency Responses Act · Filed by Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) · Introduced Oct 1, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill tells the State Department to review exit plans for U.S. embassies more often. Plans must be reviewed after each crisis and when things change. The State Department must keep crisis intake systems running during exits. It must send regular updates to families of people who left. The State Department must review how it talks to people during crises. It must report to Congress within 30 days. The bill tells the State Department to check if airlines charged too much. This applies to exits during crises.
Who it affects
The State Department must do more work to review plans and check airlines. Families of people who left abroad will get more updates.
One thing to notice
The bill asks the State Department to check airline price gouging. It does not give power to stop it or set prices.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Oct 1, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Oct 1, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Foreign Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Words to know
- exit plans — written steps to safely move people out of a place during a crisis
- price gouging — charging much more money than usual during a crisis
- crisis intake systems — tools that take in calls and facts from people during crises
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (2,836 characters) on Oct 7, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
As of — page rendered 2026-10-20.
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