118 HR 4553 IH: Prohibiting U.S. Postmark Abuse Act U.S. House of Representatives 2023-07-11 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I118th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 4553IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESJuly 11, 2023Mr. Massie introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the JudiciaryA BILLTo 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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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Prohibiting U.S. Postmark Abuse Act.

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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..