A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to provide penalties for certain false identification related crimes.
False Identification Crime Control Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for: (1) knowingly and unlawfully producing or transferring an identification document or false identification document; (2) possessing five or more false identification documents; (3) possessing false identification documents with the intent to defraud the United States; or (4) possessing an identification document that appears to be a U.S. document with knowledge that it is stolen or produced without authority.
Prohibits any person from producing, transferring, or possessing any document-making implement used for the production of false identification.
Defines "identification document" as a document made or issued by or under the authority of the United States Government, a State, local, or foreign government, a subdivision of a foreign government, or an international governmental or an international quasi-governmental organization, which, when completed with information concerning a particular individual, is of a type commonly accepted for the purpose of identification.
Prohbits persons engaged in the business of furnishing identification documents through the mails from furnishing such document bearing a birth date or age purported to belong to the person named without a disclaimer printed clearly on both sides of the document stating: NOT A GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT.
Clean Bill H.R.6946 Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee in Lieu.
Passed Senate with amendments by Voice Vote.
Senate insists on its amendments, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Thurmond; Laxalt; Hatch; Simpson; Humphrey; Biden; DeConcini; Heflin.
Resolving differences -- House actions: House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.
House Disagreed to Senate Amendments by Unanimous Consent.
House Agreed to Request for Conference and Speaker Appointed Conferees: Rodino, Hughes, Kastenmeier, Glickman, Sawyer, Fish, Kindness, Hyde.
Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conferees agreed to file conference report.
Conference report filed: Conference Report 97-975 Filed in House.
Conference Report 97-975 Filed in House.
Conference report agreed to in House: House Agreed to Conference Report by Voice Vote.
House Agreed to Conference Report by Voice Vote.
Enacted as Public Law 97-398
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Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote.
Senate agreed to conference report by Voice Vote.
Measure Signed in Senate.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 97-398.
Became Public Law No: 97-398.