MOSCOW, May 23 (RAPSI) - The State Duma adopted a bill allowing debtors to travel abroad if their unsettled fines, taxes and other obligatory payments do not aggregately exceed 10,000 rubles ($320, or €248) in the first reading on Tuesday.

The bill that sets a limit for court bailiffs' bans on debtors' foreign travel was submitted to the lower house in early April. Previously, one of the bill's authors, Nadezhda Shkolkina (United Russia), told RIA Novosti that the bill could be adopted as a framework document by mid July.

She said that many people with minor state debts are currently unable to travel abroad. The new bill stipulates a travel ban only on those whose aggregate debts exceed 10,000 rubles.

The bill also proposes adding debtors' birth places to the Federal Bailiff Service's database to minimize the number of potential mistakes involving people with the same personal data, which currently include the debtor's first and family names, patronymic and date of birth.

In April, Head of the Federal Bailiff Service Artur Parfyonchikov said nearly 2,500 debtors had been barred from traveling abroad in the first two months of this year.