18 U.S.C. § 1623
False declarations before grand jury or court
United States · Title 18 — CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Status: effective
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- 18 U.S.C. § 1623, False declarations before grand jury or court, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/449291
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An indictment or information for violation of this section alleging that, in any proceedings before or ancillary to any court or grand jury of the United States, the defendant under oath has knowingly made two or more declarations, which are inconsistent to the degree that one of them is necessarily false, need not specify which declaration is false if—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- A bill to permit the use of unsworn declarations under penalty of perjury as evidence in Federal proceedings.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
- Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act