1. Short title and table of contents (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Passport System Reform and Backlog Prevention Act . (b) Table of contents The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Sense of Congress. Sec. 4. Standards for passport issuance process. Sec. 5. Enhanced information technology solutions to improve the passport issuance process. Sec. 6. Research on commercially available information technology solutions. Sec. 7. GAO Report. Sec. 8. Rule of construction. Sec. 9. Definitions. 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States experienced a major backlog of passport applications and passport processing wait times of up to 13 weeks, exclusive of shipping times. (2) Over the past several years, the Department has experienced repeated delays in its attempts to modernize the passport issuance process. (3) The adoption of additional commercially available information technology solutions at several stages of the passport issuance process could greatly enhance and accelerate such process. (4) The United States passport is a widely recognized and trusted identity and travel document that is of tremendous importance to its bearer around the globe. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) as a routine matter, an adult who has submitted a routine new or renewal passport application should be reliably able to expect that such application will be adjudicated by the Department, at a reasonable cost, in a time frame which is conducive to international travel; (2) the Department should seek to further modernize and streamline the passport issuance process to enable a decrease in processing times below pre-pandemic levels of six-to-eight weeks, specifically for routine adult passport renewals with respect to which the Department should seek to decrease average processing times to less than 30 days