Travel Act

Travel Act

Other short titles	International Trade and Travel Advisory Board Act of 1961 International Travel and Tourism Act of 1961
Long title	An Act to strengthen the domestic and foreign commerce of the United States by providing for the establishment of an Office of International Travel within the Department of Commerce and a Travel Advisory Board.
Acronyms (colloquial)	ITA
Nicknames	International Travel Act of 1961
Enacted by	the 87th United States Congress
Effective	June 29, 1961
Citations
Public law	87-63
Statutes at Large	75 Stat. 129-2
Codification
Titles amended	22 U.S.C.: Foreign Relations and Intercourse
U.S.C. sections created	22 U.S.C. ch. 31 § 2121 et seq.
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 610 by Warren Magnuson (D–WA) on February 16, 1961 Passed the Senate on February 20, 1961 (Passed) Passed the House on May 17, 1961 (305-104, in lieu of H.R. 4614) Reported by the joint conference committee on June 15, 1961; agreed to by the House on June 19, 1961 (Agreed) and by the Senate on June 21, 1961 (Agreed) Signed into law by President John F. Kennedy on June 29, 1961
United States Supreme Court cases
United States v. Nardello, 393 U.S. 286 (1969) Rewis v. United States, 401 U.S. 808 (1971) United States v. Gillock, 445 U.S. 360 (1980)

The Travel Act or International Travel Act of 1961, 18 U.S.C. § 1952, is a Federal criminal statute which forbids the use of the U.S. mail, or interstate or foreign travel, for the purpose of engaging in certain specified criminal acts.

The Senate legislation was passed by the 87th United States Congress and enacted into law by the 35th President of the United States John F. Kennedy on June 29, 1961.^[1] The International Travel and Tourism Act has been amended seven times since 1961.^[2]