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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 2845 

To amend section 1028 of title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the 

possession, transfer, or use of fraudulent travel documents. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

DECEMBER 7, 2009 

Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mr. KYL, Mrs. FEINSTEIN, and Mr. CORNYN) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend section 1028 of title 18, United States Code, 

to prohibit the possession, transfer, or use of fraudulent 

travel documents. 

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 ‘‘False Travel Docu5 ments Prohibition Act of 2009’’. 

6 SEC. 2. TRAVEL DOCUMENTS. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1028 of title 18, United 

8 States Code, is amended— 


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1 (1) in the section heading, by inserting 

2 ‘‘FALSE TRAVEL DOCUMENTS,’’ after 

3 ‘‘IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS,’’; 

4 (2) in subsection (a)— 

5 (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘or false 

6 travel document’’ after ‘‘false identification doc7 ument’’; 

8 (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘or 

9 false travel document’’ after ‘‘false identifica10 tion document’’; 

11 (C) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘or false 

12 identification documents’’ and inserting ‘‘false 

13 identification documents, or false travel docu14 ments’’; 

15 (D) in paragraph (5), by inserting ‘‘or 

16 false travel document’’ after ‘‘false identifica17 tion document’’; and 

18 (E) in paragraph (8), by inserting ‘‘false 

19 travel documents,’’ after ‘‘false identification 

20 documents,’’; 

21 (3) in subsection (b)— 

22 (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘or 

23 false identification documents’’ and inserting 

24 ‘‘false identification documents, or false travel 

25 documents’’; and 


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1 (B) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘or a 

2 false identification document’’ and inserting ‘‘a 

3 false identification document, or a false travel 

4 document’’; 

5 (4) in subsection (c)(3)(B), by inserting ‘‘false 

6 travel document,’’ after ‘‘false identification docu7 ment,’’; 

8 (5) in subsection (d)— 

9 (A) in paragraph (11), by striking ‘‘and’’ 

10 at the end; 

11 (B) in paragraph (12), by striking the pe12 riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

13 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

14 ‘‘(13) the term ‘false travel document’ means a 

15 document issued for the use of a particular, identi16 fied individual and of a type intended or commonly 

17 accepted for the purposes of passage on a commer18 cial aircraft or train, including a ticket or boarding 

19 pass, that— 

20 ‘‘(A) was not issued by or under the au21 thority of a commercial airline or rail carrier, 

22 but appears to be issued by or under the au23 thority of a commercial airline or rail carrier; or 

24 ‘‘(B) was issued by or under the authority 

25 of a commercial airline or rail carrier, but was 


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1 subsequently altered for purposes of concealing 

2 the identity of the bearer.’’; and 

3 (6) in subsection (h), by inserting ‘‘false travel 

4 documents,’’ after ‘‘identification documents,’’. 

5 (b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 

6 for chapter 47 of title 18, United States Code, is amended 

7 by striking the item related to section 1028 and inserting 

8 the following: 

‘‘1028. Fraud and related activity in connection with identification documents, 

false travel documents, authentication features, and information.’’. 

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