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113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5268 

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

Printing Office. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 30, 2014 

Mr. GINGREY of Georgia (for himself and Mrs. BLACKBURN) 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 Printing 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 Printing Overreach Act of 2014’’. 

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

8 BY GOVERNMENT PRINTING 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 Public Printer may not assemble 

8 or manufacture any secure credentials or the component 

9 parts of any such credential. 

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

11 the following activities: 

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

13 assembled eCover for the Department of State, ex14 cept that nothing in this paragraph may be con15 strued to permit the Public Printer to manufacture 

16 a new polycarbonate data page or other secure cre17 dential within the ePassport. 

18 ‘‘(2) Manufacturing NEXUS and SENTRI 

19 cards pursuant to any contract or purchase order 

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

21 this section, but only until the earlier of— 

22 ‘‘(A) the date on which the contract ex23 pires or the purchase order is filled; or 

24 ‘‘(B) December 31, 2015. 


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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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