[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2855 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                 S. 2855

   To amend chapter 25 of title 18, United States Code, to create a 
  general provision similar to provisions found in chapter 47 of such 
title, to provide for criminal penalties for the act of forging Federal 
                               documents.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 28, 2004

  Mr. Inhofe introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend chapter 25 of title 18, United States Code, to create a 
  general provision similar to provisions found in chapter 47 of such 
title, to provide for criminal penalties for the act of forging Federal 
                               documents.

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

SECTION 1. FORGERY OF FEDERAL DOCUMENTS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 25 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 515. Federal records, documents, and writings, generally
    ``Any person who--
            ``(1) falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any 
        Federal record, Federal document, Federal writing, or record, 
        document, or writing characterizing, or purporting to 
        characterize, official Federal activity, service, contract, 
        obligation, duty, property, or chose;
            ``(2) utters or publishes as true, or possesses with intent 
        to utter or publish as true, any record, document, or writing 
        described in paragraph (1), knowing, or negligently failing to 
        know, that such record, document, or writing has not been 
        verified, has been inconclusively verified, is unable to be 
        verified, or is false, altered, forged, or counterfeited;
            ``(3) transmits to, or presents at any office, or to any 
        officer, of the United States, any record, document, or writing 
        described in paragraph (1), knowing, or negligently failing to 
        know, that such record, document, or writing has not been 
        verified, has been inconclusively verified, is unable to be 
        verified, or is false, altered, forged, or counterfeited;
            ``(4) attempts, or conspires to commit, any of the acts 
        described in paragraphs (1) through (3); or
            ``(5) while outside of the United States, engages in any of 
        the acts described in paragraphs (1) through (3),
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or 
both.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents for chapter 25 of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to section 514 the following:

        ``515. Federal records, documents, and writings, generally.''.
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