PUBLIC LAW 99-370—AUG. 4, 1986
100 STAT. 779
Public Law 99-370 99th Congress An Act To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to certain bribery and related offenses.
Aug. 4, 1986 [H.R. 3511]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Bank Bribery United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the "Bank Bribery Amendments Act of 1985".
Amendments Act of 1985. 18 USC 201 note.
SEC. 2. CHAPTER 11 AMENDMENT.
Section 215 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "§ 215. Receipt of commissions or gifts for procuring loans Law "(a) Whoever— "(1) corruptly gives, offers, or promises anything of value to enforcement and crime. any person, with intent to influence or reward an officer, director, employee, agent, or attorney of a financial institution in connection with any business or transaction of such institution; or "(2) as an officer, director, employee, agent, or attorney of a financial institution, corruptly solicits or demands for the benefit of any person, or corruptly accepts or agrees to accept, anything of value from any person, intending to be influenced or rewarded in connection with any business or transaction of such institution; shall be fined not more than $5,000 or three times the value of the thing given, offered, promised, solicited, demanded, accepted, or agreed to be accepted, whichever is greater, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, but if the value of the thing given, offered, promised, solicited, demanded, accepted, or agreed to be accepted does not exceed $100, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. "0>) As used in this section, the term 'financial institution' means— "(1) a bank with deposits insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; "(2) an institution with accounts insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation; "(3) a credit union with accounts insured by the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund; "(4) a Federal home loan bank or a member, as defined in section 2 of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act (12 U.S.C. 1422), of the Federal home loan bank system; "(5) a Federal land bank. Federal intermediate credit bank, bank for cooperatives, production credit association, and Federal land bank association;
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