[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 319 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 319

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to make the knowing disclosure 
of classified information by Federal officers and employees a criminal 
                                offense.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 1995

 Mr. McCollum 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 make the knowing disclosure 
of classified information by Federal officers and employees a criminal 
                                offense.

    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 ``National Security and Classified 
Information Protection Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. SECTION 798 AMENDMENT.

    (a) In General.--Section 798 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Whoever, being or having been an officer or employee of the 
Federal Government, knowingly discloses, communicates, furnishes, 
transmits, publishes, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized 
person, any classified information, document, or material to which such 
person had access in the course of that Federal Government office or 
employment, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 
20 years, or both.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--Section 798 of title 18, 
United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b), by striking ``subsection (a)'' and 
        inserting ``subsections (a) and (b)''; and
            (2) by redesignating subsections (b) (c), and (d) as 
        subsections (c) and (d), respectively.

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