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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2431 

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the possession, transfer, 

or use of fraudulent travel documents, to amend title 49, United States 

Code, to require recurring training for transportation security officers, 

and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 6, 2011 

Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi (for himself, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. 

HIGGINS, Ms. HOCHUL, Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas, and Ms. SPEIER) 

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 

Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Homeland Security, for 

a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 

consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the possession, transfer, or use of fraudulent travel documents, 

to amend title 49, United States Code, to require recurring training for transportation security officers, and 

for other purposes. 

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 2011’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. TRAVEL DOCUMENTS. 

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

3 States Code, is amended— 

4 (1) in the section heading, by inserting 

5 ‘‘FALSE TRAVEL DOCUMENTS,’’ after 

6 ‘‘IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS,’’; 

7 (2) in subsection (a)— 

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

9 travel document’’ after ‘‘false identification doc10 ument’’; 

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

12 false travel document’’ after ‘‘false identifica13 tion document’’; 

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

15 identification documents’’ and inserting ‘‘false 

16 identification documents, or false travel docu17 ments’’; 

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

19 false travel document’’ after ‘‘false identifica20 tion document’’; and 

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

22 travel documents,’’ after ‘‘false identification 

23 documents,’’; 

24 (3) in subsection (b)— 

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

26 false identification documents’’ and inserting 


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1 ‘‘false identification documents, or false travel 

2 documents’’; and 

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

4 false identification document’’ and inserting ‘‘a 

5 false identification document, or a false travel 

6 document’’; 

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

8 travel document,’’ after ‘‘false identification docu9 ment,’’; 

10 (5) in subsection (d)— 

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

12 at the end; 

13 (B) in paragraph (12), by striking the pe14 riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

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

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

17 document issued for the use of a particular, identi18 fied individual and of a type intended or commonly 

19 accepted for the purposes of passage on a commer20 cial aircraft or train, including a ticket or boarding 

21 pass, that— 

22 ‘‘(A) was not issued by or under the au23 thority of a commercial airline or rail carrier, 

24 but appears to be issued by or under the au25 thority of a commercial airline or rail carrier; or 


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

2 of a commercial airline or rail carrier, but was 

3 altered.’’; and 

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

5 documents,’’ after ‘‘identification documents,’’. 

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

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

8 by striking the item related to section 1028 and inserting 

9 the following: 

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

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

10 SEC. 3. RECURRING TRAINING FOR TRANSPORTATION SE11 CURITY OFFICERS ON THE IDENTIFICATION 

12 OF FALSE DOCUMENTS. 

13 Section 44901 of title 49, United States Code, is 

14 amended by adding at the end the following new sub15 section: 

16 ‘‘(l) RECURRING TRAINING ON IDENTIFICATION OF

17 FALSE DOCUMENTS.— 

18 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In furtherance of aviation 

19 security, the Assistant Secretary of Transportation 

20 for Transportation Security shall provide recurring 

21 training to transportation security officers on meth22 ods to identify false travel documents and false iden23 tification documents. 


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1 ‘‘(2) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection, the 

2 terms ‘false travel document’ and ‘false identifica3 tion document’ have the meaning given such terms 

4 in section 1028(d) of title 18.’’. 

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