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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3767 

To amend title 44, United States Code, to prohibit the assembly or manufacture of secure credentials or their component parts by the Government 

Publishing Office. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 20, 2015 

Mrs. BLACKBURN (for herself and Mr. WALKER) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on House Administration 

A BILL 

To amend title 44, United States Code, to prohibit the assembly or manufacture of secure credentials or their 

component parts by the Government Publishing Office. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Preventing Govern5 ment Publishing Overreach Act of 2015’’. 

6 SEC. 2. PROHIBITING ASSEMBLY OR MANUFACTURE OF SE7 CURE CREDENTIALS OR COMPONENT PARTS 

8 BY GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE. 

9 (a) PROHIBITION.— 


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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 5 of title 44, United 

2 States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 

3 following new section: 

4 ‘‘§ 518. Prohibiting assembly or manufacture of se5 cure credentials or component parts 

6 ‘‘(a) PROHIBITION.—Except to the extent permitted 

7 under subsection (b), the Director of the Government Pub8 lishing Office may not assemble or manufacture any se9 cure credentials or the component parts of any such cre10 dential. 

11 ‘‘(b) EXCEPTIONS.—Subsection (a) does not apply to 

12 the following activities: 

13 ‘‘(1) Stitching security paper into an already 

14 assembled eCover for the Department of State, ex15 cept that nothing in this paragraph may be con16 strued to permit the Director to manufacture a new 

17 polycarbonate data page or other secure credential 

18 within the ePassport. 

19 ‘‘(2) Manufacturing NEXUS and SENTRI 

20 cards pursuant to any contract or purchase order 

21 which is in effect as of the date of the enactment of 

22 this section, but only until the earlier of— 

23 ‘‘(A) the date on which the contract ex24 pires or the purchase order is filled; or 

25 ‘‘(B) December 31, 2016. 


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1 ‘‘(3) Assembling or manufacturing any secure 

2 credentials specifically at the request of the Central 

3 Intelligence Agency or the National Security Agency 

4 for use in classified programs or activities. 

5 ‘‘(4) Manufacturing identification badges for 

6 the Presidential Inauguration. 

7 ‘‘(c) SECURE CREDENTIAL DEFINED.—The term ‘se8 cure credential’ means an identification document which 

9 includes component security parts (such as electronic stor10 age capability, semiconductors, antennae, anti-counter11 feiting technology, digital watermarks and other digital 

12 identifications, and specialized polycarbonate manufac13 turing) designed to authenticate the document or reduce 

14 the risk of the unauthorized replication or alteration of 

15 the document.’’. 

16 (2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec17 tions for chapter 5 of such title is amended by add18 ing at the end the following new item: 

‘‘518. Prohibiting assembly or manufacture of secure credentials or component 

parts.’’. 

19 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 501 of 

20 such title is amended— 

21 (1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 

22 (1); 

23 (2) by striking the period at the end of para24 graph (2) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 


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1 (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol2 lowing new paragraph: 

3 ‘‘(3) as provided in section 518.’’. 

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