119-hr2787

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2787 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2787

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to require a warrant for the 
 disclosure of records from a provider of electronic communication 
 service or remote computing service, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 April 9, 2025

 Mr. Lieu introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on the Judiciary

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 A BILL

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to require a warrant for the 
 disclosure of records from a provider of electronic communication 
 service or remote computing service, 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 ``Warrant for Metadata Act''.

SEC. 2. WARRANT REQUIREMENT FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION SERVICE AND 
 REMOTE COMPUTING SERVICE RECORDS.

    (a) Warrant Requirement.--

Section 2703 of title 18, United States 
Code, is amended--

    (1) in subsection

    (a) --
        (A) by striking ``for one hundred and eighty days 
 or less,''; and
        (B) by striking ``A governmental entity may require 
 the disclosure by a provider of electronic 
 communications services of the contents of a wire or 
 electronic communication that has been in electronic 
 storage in an electronic communications system for more 
 than one hundred and eighty days by the means available 
 under subsection

    (b) of this section.'';

    (2) in subsection
            (c) --
        (A) in paragraph

    (1) , by striking ``other 
 information'' and all that follows, and inserting 
 ``other information, including the metadata (as that 
 term is defined in 

section 3502 of title 44) of such 
 record or other information, pertaining to a subscriber 
 to or customer of such service (not including the 
 contents of communications) only when the governmental 
 entity obtains a warrant issued using the procedures 
 described in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 
 (or, in the case of a State court, issued using State 
 warrant procedures and, in the case of a court-martial 
 or other proceeding under chapter 47 of title 10 (the 
 Uniform Code of Military Justice), issued under 

section 846 of that title, in accordance with regulations 
 prescribed by the President) by a court of competent 
 jurisdiction.'';
        (B) by striking paragraph

    (2) ; and
            (C) by redesignating paragraph

    (3) as paragraph

    (2) ; and

    (3) in subsection
            (d) by striking ``or
            (c) ''.

    (b) Retroactive Effect.--

    (1) In general.--The amendment made by subsection

    (a) shall 
 have no effect on any disclosure required by a governmental 
 entity pursuant to 

section 2703
            (c) of title 18, United States 
 Code, before the date of enactment of this Act.

    (2) Subsequent disclosure; expanded disclosure.--With 
 respect to a disclosure required by a governmental entity 
 pursuant to 

section 2703
            (c) of title 18, United States Code, 
 before the date of enactment of this Act, any request for a 
 subsequent disclosure related to such disclosure or an 
 expansion of such disclosure made after the date of enactment 
 of this Act shall be treated as a new disclosure under such 
 section (as amended by this Act).
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