Union Calendar No. 198
104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2538
[Report No. 104–391]
A BILL
To make clerical and technical amendments to title
18, United States Code, and other provisions of
law relating to crime and criminal justice.
DECEMBER 11, 1995
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
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Union Calendar No. 198
104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2538
[Report No. 104–391]
To make clerical and technical amendments to title 18, United States Code,
and other provisions of law relating to crime and criminal justice.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 26, 1995
Mr. MCCOLLUM (for himself and Mr. SCHUMER) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
DECEMBER 11, 1995
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union
and ordered to be printed
A BILL
To make clerical and technical amendments to title 18,
United States Code, and other provisions of law relating
to crime and criminal justice.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Criminal Law Tech-
nical Amendments Act of 1995’’.
SEC. 2. GENERAL TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.
(a) FURTHER CORRECTIONS TO MISLEADING FINE
AMOUNTS AND RELATED TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS.—
(1) Sections 152, 153, 154, and 610 of title 18,
United States Code, are each amended by striking
‘‘fined not more than $5,000’’ and inserting ‘‘fined
under this title’’.
(2) Section 970(b) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘fined not more than
$500’’ and inserting ‘‘fined under this title’’.
(3) Sections 661, 1028(b), 1361, and 2701(b)
of title 18, United States Code, are each amended
by striking ‘‘fine of under’’ each place it appears and
inserting ‘‘fine under’’.
(4) Section 3146(b)(1)(A)(iv) of title 18, Unit-
ed States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘a fined
under this title’’ and inserting ‘‘a fine under this
title’’.
(5) The section 1118 of title 18, United States
Code, that was enacted by Public Law 103–333—
(A) is redesignated as section 1122; and
(B) is amended in subsection (c) by—
(i) inserting ‘‘under this title’’ after
‘‘fine’’; and
(ii) 
striking 
‘‘nor 
more 
than
$20,000’’.
(6) The table of sections at the beginning of
chapter 51 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following new
item:
‘‘1122. Protection against the human immunodeficiency virus.’’.
(7) Sections 1761(a) and 1762(b) of title 18,
United States Code, are each amended by striking
‘‘fined not more than $50,000’’ and inserting ‘‘fined
under this title’’.
(8) Sections 1821, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854,
1905, 1916, 1918, 1991, 2115, 2116, 2191, 2192,
2194, 2199, 2234, 2235, and 2236 of title 18,
United States Code, are each amended by striking
‘‘fined not more than $1,000’’ each place it appears
and inserting ‘‘fined under this title’’.
(9) Section 1917 of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘fined not less than
$100 nor more than $1,000’’ and inserting ‘‘fined
under this title not less than $100’’.
(10) Section 1920 of title 18, United States
Code, is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘of not more than
$250,000’’ and inserting ‘‘under this title’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘of not more than
$100,000’’ and inserting ‘‘under this title’’.
(11) Section 2076 of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘fined not more than
$1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year’’ and
inserting ‘‘fined under this title or imprisoned not
more than one year, or both’’.
(12) Section 597 of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘fined not more than
$10,000’’ and inserting ‘‘fined under this title’’.
(b) CROSS REFERENCE CORRECTIONS AND CORREC-
TIONS OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS.—
(1) Section 3286 of title 18, United States
Code, is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘2331’’ and inserting
‘‘2332’’;
(B) by striking ‘‘2339’’ and inserting
‘‘2332a’’; and
(C) by striking ‘‘36’’ and inserting ‘‘37’’.
(2) Section 2339A(b) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘2331’’ and inserting
‘‘2332’’;
(B) by striking ‘‘2339’’ and inserting
‘‘2332a’’;
(C) by striking ‘‘36’’ and inserting ‘‘37’’;
and
(D) by striking ‘‘of an escape’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘or an escape’’.
(3) Section 1961(1)(D) of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘that title’’ and
inserting ‘‘this title’’.
(4) Section 2423(b) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘2245’’ and inserting
‘‘2246’’.
(5) Section 3553(f) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘section 1010 or 1013
of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act
(21 U.S.C. 961, 963)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 1010
or 1013 of the Controlled Substances Import and
Export Act (21 U.S.C. 960, 963)’’.
(6) Section 3553(f)(4) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘21 U.S.C. 848’’ and
inserting ‘‘section 408 of the Controlled Substances
Act’’.
(c) SIMPLIFICATION AND CLARIFICATION OF WORD-
ING.—
(1) Section 844(h) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended—
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘be
sentenced to imprisonment for 5 years but not
more than 15 years’’ and inserting ‘‘be sen-
tenced to imprisonment for not less than 5 nor
more than 15 years’’; and
(B) in the second sentence, by striking ‘‘be
sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years but not
more than 25 years’’ and inserting ‘‘be sen-
tenced to imprisonment for not less than 10 nor
more than 25 years’’.
(2) The third undesignated paragraph of sec-
tion 5032 of title 18, United States Code, is amend-
ed by inserting ‘‘or as authorized under section
3401(g) of this title’’ after ‘‘shall proceed by infor-
mation’’.
(3) Section 1120 of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘Federal prison’’ each
place it appears and inserting ‘‘Federal correctional
institution’’.
(d) CORRECTION
OF PARAGRAPH CONNECTORS.—
Section 2516(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amend-
ed—
(1) in paragraph (l), by striking ‘‘or’’ after the
semicolon; and
(2) in paragraph (n), by striking ‘‘and’’ where
it appears after the semicolon and inserting ‘‘or’’.
(e) CORRECTION
CAPITALIZATION
OF
ITEMS
IN
LIST.—Section 504 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘the’’ the first
place it appears and inserting ‘‘The’’; and
(2) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘the’’ the first
place it appears and inserting ‘‘The’’.
(f) CORRECTIONS OF PUNCTUATION AND OTHER ER-
RONEOUS FORM.—
(1) Section 656 of title 18, United States Code,
is amended in the first paragraph by striking
‘‘Act,,’’ and inserting ‘‘Act,’’.
(2) Section 1114 of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘1112.’’ and inserting
‘‘1112,’’.
(3) Section 504(3) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘importation, of’’ and
inserting ‘‘importation of’’.
(4) Section 3059A(a)(1) of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘section 215
225,,’’ and inserting ‘‘section 215, 225,’’.
(5) Section 3125(a) of title 18, United States
Code, is amended by striking the close quotation
mark at the end.
(6) Section 1956(c)(7)(B)(iii) of title 18,
United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘1978)’’
and inserting ‘‘1978’’.
(7) The item relating to section 656 in the table
of sections at the beginning of chapter 31 of title 18,
United States Code, is amended by inserting a
comma after ‘‘embezzlement’’.
(8) The item relating to section 1024 in the
table of sections at the beginning of chapter 47 of
title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking
‘‘veterans’’’ and inserting ‘‘veteran’s’’.
(9) Section 3182 (including the heading of such
section) and the item relating to such section in the
table of sections at the beginning of chapter 209, of
title 18, United States Code, are each amended by
inserting a comma after ‘‘District’’ each place it ap-
pears.
(10) The item relating to section 3183 in the
table of sections at the beginning of chapter 209 of
title 18, United States Code, is amended by insert-
ing a comma after ‘‘Territory’’.
(11) The items relating to section 2155 and
2156 in the table of sections at the beginning of
chapter 105 of title 18, United States Code, are
each amended by striking ‘‘or’’ and inserting ‘‘, or’’.
(1) SECTION
5032.—The first undesignated
paragraph of section 5032 of title 18, United States
Code, is amended—
(A) by inserting ‘‘section 922(x)’’ before
‘‘or section 924(b)’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘or (x)’’.
(2) STRIKING MATERIAL UNSUCCESSFULLY AT-
TEMPTED TO BE STRICKEN FROM SECTION 1116 BY
PUBLIC
LAW
103–322.—Subsection (a) of section
1116 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
striking ‘‘, except’’ and all that follows through the
end of such subsection and inserting a period.
(3) ELIMINATION OF DUPLICATE AMENDMENT
IN SECTION 1958.—Section 1958(a) of title 18, Unit-
ed States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘or who con-
spires to do so’’ where it appears following ‘‘or who
conspires to do so’’ and inserting a comma.
(h) INSERTION OF MISSING END QUOTE.—Section
80001(a) of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforce-
ment Act of 1994 is amended by inserting a close
quotation mark followed by a period at the end.
(i) REDESIGNATION OF DUPLICATE SECTION NUM-
BERS AND CONFORMING CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—
(1) REDESIGNATION.—That section 2258 added
to title 18, United States Code, by section
160001(a) of the Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act of 1994 is redesignated as section
2260.
(2) CONFORMING CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The
item in the table of sections at the beginning of
chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, relating
to the section redesignated by paragraph (1) is
amended by striking ‘‘2258’’ and inserting ‘‘2260’’.
(3) CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO CROSS-REF-
ERENCE.—Section 1961(1)(B) of title 18, United
States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘2258’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2260’’.
(j) REDESIGNATION OF DUPLICATE CHAPTER NUM-
BER AND CONFORMING CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—
(1) 
REDESIGNATION.—The 
chapter 
113B
added to title 18, United States Code, by Public
Law 103–236 is redesignated chapter 113C.
(2) CONFORMING CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The
table of chapters at the beginning of part I of title
18, United States Code is amended in the item re-
lating to the chapter redesignated by paragraph
(1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘113B’’ and inserting
‘‘113C’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘2340.’’ and inserting
‘‘2340’’.
(k) REDESIGNATION
OF DUPLICATE PARAGRAPH
NUMBERS AND CORRECTION OF PLACEMENT OF PARA-
GRAPHS IN SECTION 3563.—
(1) REDESIGNATION.—Section 3563(a) of title
18, United States Code, is amended by redesignat-
ing the second paragraph (4) as paragraph (5).
(2) CONFORMING
CONNECTOR
CHANGE.—Sec-
tion 3563(a) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (3); and
(B) by striking the period at the end of
paragraph (4) and inserting ‘‘; and’’.
(3) 
PLACEMENT
CORRECTION.—Section
3563(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended
so that paragraph (4) and the paragraph redesig-
nated as paragraph (5) by this subsection are trans-
ferred to appear in numerical order immediately fol-
lowing paragraph (3) of such section 3563(a).
(l) REDESIGNATION
OF
DUPLICATE
PARAGRAPH
NUMBERS IN SECTION 1029 AND CONFORMING AMEND-
MENTS RELATED THERETO.—Section 1029 of title 18,
United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) by redesignating those paragraphs (5)
and (6) which were added by Public Law 103–
414 as paragraphs (7) and (8), respectively;
(B) by redesignating paragraph (7) as
paragraph (9);
(C) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of para-
graph (6) and at the end of paragraph (7) as
so redesignated by this subsection; and
(D) by inserting ‘‘or’’ at the end of para-
graph (8) as so redesignated by this subsection;
(2) in subsection (e), by redesignating the sec-
ond paragraph (7) as paragraph (8); and
(3) in subsection (c)—
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘or (7)’’
and inserting ‘‘(7), (8), or (9)’’; and
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or (6)’’
and inserting ‘‘(6), (7), or (8)’’.
(m) INSERTION
OF MISSING SUBSECTION HEAD-
ING.—Section 1791(c) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by inserting after ‘‘(c)’’ the following subsection
heading: ‘‘CONSECUTIVE
PUNISHMENT
REQUIRED
IN
CERTAIN CASES.—’’.
(n) CORRECTION OF MISSPELLING.—Section 2327(c)
of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking
‘‘delegee’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘designee’’.
(o) CORRECTION OF SPELLING AND AGENCY REF-
ERENCE.—Section 5038(f) of title 18, United States Code,
is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘juvenille’’ and inserting ‘‘juve-
nile’’, and
(2) by striking ‘‘the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation, Identification Division,’’ and inserting ‘‘the
Federal Bureau of Investigation’’.
(p) 
CORRECTING
MISPLACED
WORD.—Section
1028(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph (4) and inserting
‘‘or’’ at the end of paragraph (5).
(q) STYLISTIC CORRECTION.—Section 37(c) of title
18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after
‘‘(c)’’ the following subsection heading: ‘‘BAR TO PROS-
ECUTION.—’’.
SEC. 3. REPEAL OF OBSOLETE PROVISIONS IN TITLE 18.
(a) SECTION 709 AMENDMENT.—Section 709 of title
18, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘Whoever
uses as a firm or business name the words ‘Reconstruction
Finance Corporation’ or any combination or variation of
these words—’’.