[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[H.R. 3166 Referred in Senate (RFS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3166


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 18, 1996

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the crime of 
                false statement in a Government matter.

    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 ``Government Accountability Act of 
1996''.

SEC. 2. RESTORATION OF FALSE STATEMENT PENALTIES.

    Section 1001 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows:
``Sec. 1001. Statements or entries generally
    ``(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any 
matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or 
judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and 
willfully--
            ``(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, 
        scheme, or device a material fact;
            ``(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent 
        statement or representation; or
            ``(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing 
        the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or 
        fraudulent statement or entry;
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or 
both.
    ``(b) Subsection (a) does not apply--
            ``(1) to a party to a judicial proceeding, or that party's 
        counsel, for statements, representations, writings or documents 
        submitted by such party or counsel to a judge in that 
        proceeding; or
            ``(2) to--
                    ``(A) any non-administrative matter; or
                    ``(B) any investigative matter, other than with 
                respect to a person furnishing information pursuant to 
                a duly authorized investigation;
        within the jurisdiction of an entity within the legislative 
        branch.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 17, 1996.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.

                              By Linda Nave,

                                                          Deputy Clerk.