[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4553 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4553

To amend title 18, United States Code, to impose certain penalties for 
 the forging or counterfeiting of any postmarking stamp or impression 
 thereof with respect to a mailed ballot for an election for Federal, 
            State, or local office, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 11, 2023

  Mr. Massie 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, to impose certain penalties for 
 the forging or counterfeiting of any postmarking stamp or impression 
 thereof with respect to a mailed ballot for an election for Federal, 
            State, or local office, 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 ``Prohibiting U.S. Postmark Abuse 
Act''.

SEC. 2. POSTMARKING STAMPS.

    Section 503 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Whoever forges'' and inserting ``(a) 
        Whoever forges'';
            (2) by striking ``or such impression thereof,'' and all 
        that follows and inserting the following:
``or such impression thereof--
            ``(1) shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not 
        more than five years, or both; or
            ``(2) if the impression from a postmarking stamp or 
        impression thereof forged, counterfeited, used, sold, or 
        possessed in violation of this section is applied to a mailed 
        ballot for an election for Federal, State, or local office, 
        shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 
        years, or both.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end following new subsection:
    ``(b) Whoever, with the intent to falsify the date on which a 
postmark was applied, applies to a mailed ballot described in 
subsection (a)(2) a genuine postmark that bears a date other than the 
date on which such postmark was applied, shall be subject to the 
penalties set forth in such subsection.''.
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