[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 311 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 311

 To amend section 2511 of title 18, United States Code, to make lawful 
the interception of an oral, wire, or electronic communication that is 
       made with the consent of all parties to the communication.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 4 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

  Mr. Bumpers introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend section 2511 of title 18, United States Code, to make lawful 
the interception of an oral, wire, or electronic communication that is 
       made with the consent of all parties to the communication.

    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 Telephone Privacy Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. CONSENT TO INTERCEPTION OF AN ORAL, WIRE OR ELECTRONIC 
              COMMUNICATION.

    Subsection 2(d) of section 2511 of title 18 United States Code is 
amended to read as follows: ``2(d) It shall not be unlawful under this 
chapter for a person not acting under color of law to intercept a wire 
or oral communication where--
            ``(i) all parties to the communication have given prior 
        consent to such interception, unless such communication is 
        intercepted for the purpose of committing any criminal or 
        tortious act in violation of the Constitution or laws of the 
        United States; or
            ``(ii) such person is an employer, or the officer or agent 
        of an employer, engaged in lawful electronic monitoring of its 
        employees' communications made in the course of the employees' 
        duties.''.

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