Preventing Fugitive Fraudsters Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4891 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4891

To require defendants indicted for certain crimes relating to fraud to 
 surrender their passports as a condition of pretrial release, and for 
                            other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 24, 2026

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

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                                 A BILL

 
To require defendants indicted for certain crimes relating to fraud to 
 surrender their passports as a condition of pretrial release, 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 ``Preventing Fugitive Fraudsters 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CONDITIONS FOR RELEASE FOR CERTAIN INDICTMENTS.

    Section 3142(c)(1)(B) of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in clause (xiii), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) by redesignating clause (xiv) as clause (xv); and
            (3) by inserting after clause (xiii) the following:
                            ``(xiv) in the case of an indictment under 
                        section 666, 1343, 1956, or 1957, surrender any 
                        passport or passport card belonging to the 
                        person and abstain from international travel, 
                        unless a judicial officer issues specific 
                        written findings of fact that the surrender of 
                        the passport or passport card or the 
                        prohibition on travel is unnecessary to assure 
                        the appearance of the person; and''.
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