[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3611 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3611

  To prohibit United States citizens from traveling into or through a 
     country or area for which a United States passport is invalid.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 31, 1998

   Mr. King introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on International Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit United States citizens from traveling into or through a 
     country or area for which a United States passport is invalid.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON TRAVEL TO OR THROUGH CERTAIN COUNTRIES.

    (a) Prohibition.--Except as provided in subsection (b), in a case 
in which the Secretary of State has declared United States passports 
invalid, under the Act of July 3, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 211a), for travel 
into or through a country or area, any person owing allegiance to the 
United States who travels into or through such country or area, knowing 
that such passports are invalid for such travel, shall be imprisoned 
not more than 10 years (in the case of the first or second offense), or 
15 years (in the case of any other offense), fined under title 18, 
United States Code, or both.
    (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) does not apply to travel by a person 
whose passport has been specifically validated for such travel by the 
United States Government.
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