Internet False Identification Prevention Act of 2000
PL 106-578 (S.2924), enacted 12/28/2000

PUBLIC LAW 106-578—DEC. 28, 2000 
114 STAT. 3075 
Public Law 106-578 
106th Congress 
An Act 
To strengthen the enforcement of Federal statutes relating to false identification, 
Dec. 28, 2000 
and for other purposes. 
[S. 2924] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
Internet False 
Identification 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
Prevention Act of 
2000. 
This Act may be cited as the "Internet False Identification 
is USC lOOl 
Prevention Act of 2000". 
note. 
SEC. 2. COORDINATING COMMITTEE ON FALSE IDENTIFICATION. 
18 USC 1028 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General and the Secretairy of 
the Treasury shall establish a coordinating committee to ensure, 
through existing interagency task forces or other means, that the 
creation and distribution of fedse identification documents (as 
defined in section 1028(d)(3) of title 18, United States Code, as 
added by section 3(2) of this Act) is vigorously investigated and 
prosecuted. 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.—The coordinating committee shall consist of 
the Director of the United States Secret Service, the Director of 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Attorney Grenergd, the 
Commissioner of Social Security, and the Commissioner of Immigra-
tion and Naturalization, or their respective designees. 
(c) TERM.—The coordinating committee shall terminate 2 years 
£ifter the effective date of this Act. 
(d) REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Attorney General and the Secretary 
of the Treasury, at the end of each year of the existence of 
the committee, shall report to the Committee on the Judiciary 
of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House 
of Representatives on the activities of the committee. 
(2) CONTENTS.—The report referred to in paragraph (1) 
shall include— 
(A) the total number of indictments and informations, 
guilty pleas, convictions, and acquittals resulting fi-om the 
investigation and prosecution of the creation and distribu-
tion of false identification documents during the preceding 
year; 
(B) identification of the Federal judicial districts in 
which the indictments and informations were filed, and 
in which the subsequent guilty pleas, convictions, and 
acquittals occurred; 
(C) specification of the Federal statutes utilized for 
prosecution; 
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(D) a brief factual description of significant investiga-
tions and prosecutions; 
(E) specification of the sentence imposed as a result 
of each guilty plea and conviction; and 
(F) recommendations, if any, for legislative changes 
that could facilitate more effective investigation 
and 
prosecution of the creation and distribution of felse identi-
fication documents. 
SEC. 3. FALSE roENTIFICATION. 
Section 1028 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c)(3)(A), by inserting ", including the 
transfer of a document by electronic means" after "commerce"; 
and 
(2) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting "template, computer 
file, computer disc," after "impression,"; 
(B) in paragraph (5), by striking "and" after the semi-
colon; 
(C) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (8); 
(D) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (5) as 
paragraphs (4) through (6), respectively; 
(E) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following: 
"(3) the term 'false identification document' means a docu-
ment of a type intended or commonly accepted for the purposes 
of identification of individuals that— 
"(A) is not issued by or under the authority of a govern-
mental entity; and 
"(B) appears to be issued by or under the authority 
of the United States Government, a State, a political sub-
division of a State, a foreign government, a political subdivi-
sion of a foreign government, or an international govern-
mental or quasi-governmental organization;"; sind 
(F) by inserting sifter paragraph (6), as redesignated, 
the following: 
"(7) the term 'transfer' includes selecting an identification 
document, false identification document, or docimient-making 
implement and placing or directing the placement of such 
identification document, false identification document, or docu-
ment-making implement on an online location where it is avail-
able to others; and". 
SEC. 4. REPEAL. 
Section 1738 of title 18, United States Code, and the item 
relating to that section in the table of contents for chapter 83 
of that title, are repealed. 
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114 STAT. 3077 
SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
18 USC 1028 
This Act 8ind the amendments made by this Act shall take 
effect 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Approved December 28, 2000. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 2924: 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 146 (2000): 
Oct. 31, considered and passed Senate. 
Dec. 15, considered and passed House, amended. Senate concurred in House 
amendment.