In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

December 15, 2000.

Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 2924) entitled ‘‘An Act to strengthen the enforcement of Federal statutes relating to false identification, and for other purposes’’,

do pass with the following

AMENDMENT:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:

1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Internet False Identi3 fication Prevention Act of 2000’’.

4 SEC. 2. COORDINATING COMMITTEE ON FALSE IDENTIFICA5 TION.

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General and the Sec7 retary of the Treasury shall establish a coordinating com8 mittee to ensure, through existing interagency task forces

9 or other means, that the creation and distribution of false

10 identification documents (as defined in section 1028(d)(3)

11 of title 18, United States Code, as added by section 3(2)

12 of this Act) is vigorously investigated and prosecuted.

13 (b) MEMBERSHIP.—The coordinating committee shall

14 consist of the Director of the United States Secret Service,
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1 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the At2 torney General, the Commissioner of Social Security, and

3 the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, or

4 their respective designees.

5 (c) TERM.—The coordinating committee shall termi6 nate 2 years after the effective date of this Act.

7 (d) REPORT.—

8 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General and the

9 Secretary of the Treasury, at the end of each year of

10 the existence of the committee, shall report to the

11 Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the

12 Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Rep13 resentatives on the activities of the committee.

14 (2) CONTENTS.—The report referred in para15 graph (1) shall include—

16 (A) the total number of indictments and in17 formations, guilty pleas, convictions, and acquit18 tals resulting from the investigation and prosecu19 tion of the creation and distribution of false

20 identification documents during the preceding

21 year;

22 (B) identification of the Federal judicial

23 districts in which the indictments and informa24 tions were filed, and in which the subsequent
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1 guilty pleas, convictions, and acquittals oc2 curred;

3 (C) specification of the Federal statutes uti4 lized for prosecution;

5 (D) a brief factual description of significant

6 investigations and prosecutions;

7 (E) specification of the sentence imposed as

8 a result of each guilty plea and conviction; and

9 (F) recommendations, if any, for legislative

10 changes that could facilitate more effective inves11 tigation and prosecution of the creation and dis12 tribution of false identification documents.

13 SEC. 3. FALSE IDENTIFICATION.

14 Section 1028 of title 18, United States Code, is

15 amended—

16 (1) in subsection (c)(3)(A), by inserting ‘‘, in17 cluding the transfer of a document by electronic

18 means’’ after ‘‘commerce’’; and

19 (2) in subsection (d)—

20 (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘tem21 plate, computer file, computer disc,’’ after ‘‘im22 pression,’’;

23 (B) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’

24 after the semicolon;
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1 (C) by redesignating paragraph (6) as

2 paragraph (8);

3 (D) by redesignating paragraphs (3)

4 through (5) as paragraphs (4) through (6), re5 spectively;

6 (E) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol7 lowing:

8 ‘‘(3) the term ‘false identification document’

9 means a document of a type intended or commonly

10 accepted for the purposes of identification of individ11 uals that—

12 ‘‘(A) is not issued by or under the authority

13 of a governmental entity; and

14 ‘‘(B) appears to be issued by or under the

15 authority of the United States Government, a

16 State, a political subdivision of a State, a for17 eign government, a political subdivision of a for18 eign government, or an international govern19 mental or quasi-governmental organization;’’;

20 and

21 (F) by inserting after paragraph (6), as re22 designated, the following:

23 ‘‘(7) the term ‘transfer’ includes selecting an

24 identification document, false identification docu25 ment, or document-making implement and placing or
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1 directing the placement of such identification docu2 ment, false identification document, or document3 making implement on an online location where it is

4 available to others; and’’.

5 SEC. 4. REPEAL.

6 Section 1738 of title 18, United States Code, and the

7 item relating to that section in the table of contents for

8 chapter 83 of that title, are repealed.

9 SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.

10 This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall

11 take effect 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

Attest:

Clerk.

106TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. 2924

AMENDMENT