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S.2924
One Hundred Sixth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand
An Act
To strengthen the enforcement of Federal statutes relating to false
identification, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Internet False Identification
Prevention Act of 2000''.
SEC. 2. COORDINATING COMMITTEE ON FALSE IDENTIFICATION.
(a) In General.--The Attorney General and the Secretary of the
Treasury shall establish a coordinating committee to ensure, through
existing interagency task forces or other means, that the creation and
distribution of false 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 General, the Commissioner
of Social Security, and the Commissioner of Immigration and
Naturalization, or their respective designees.
(c) Term.--The coordinating committee shall terminate 2 years after
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 from the
investigation and prosecution of the creation and distribution
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;
(D) a brief factual description of significant
investigations 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 false identification
documents.
SEC. 3. FALSE IDENTIFICATION.
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
semicolon;
(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 document
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
governmental entity; and
``(B) appears to be issued by or under the authority of the
United States Government, a State, a political subdivision of a
State, a foreign government, a political subdivision of a
foreign government, or an international governmental or quasi-
governmental organization;''; and
(F) by inserting after paragraph (6), as redesignated, the
following:
``(7) the term `transfer' includes selecting an identification
document, false identification document, or document-making
implement and placing or directing the placement of such
identification document, false identification document, or
document-making implement on an online location where it is
available 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.
SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect 90
days after the date of enactment of this Act.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
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