[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4282 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4282

 To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to police badges.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 21, 1998

  Mr. Horn (for himself, Mrs. Morella, Mr. Conyers, Mr. Costello, Mr. 
 Stupak, Mr. Ramstad, Mrs. Kelly, Ms. Carson, Mr. Calvert, Ms. Danner, 
 Mr. Thompson, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Ford, and Mr. Pappas) introduced 
    the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to police badges.

    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 ``Police Badge Fraud Prevention Act of 
1998''.

SEC. 2. POLICE BADGES.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 33 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 716. Police badges
    ``(a) Whoever--
            ``(1) knowingly transfers, transports, or receives, in 
        interstate or foreign commerce, a counterfeit police badge;
            ``(2) knowingly transfers, in interstate or foreign 
        commerce, a genuine police badge to an individual not 
        authorized to possess it under the law of the place in which 
        the badge is the official badge of the police;
            ``(3) knowingly receives a genuine police badge in a 
        transfer prohibited by paragraph (2); or
            ``(4) being a person not authorized to possess a genuine 
        police badge under the law of the place in which the badge is 
        the official badge of the police, knowingly transports that 
        badge in interstate or foreign commerce;
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 180 days, 
or both.
    ``(b) As used in this section--
            ``(1) the term `genuine police badge' means an official 
        badge issued by public authority to identify an individual as a 
        law enforcement officer having police powers; and
            ``(2) the term `counterfeit police badge' means an item 
        that so resembles a police badge that it would deceive an 
        ordinary individual into believing it was a genuine police 
        badge.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 33 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new item:

``716. Police badges.''.
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