[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 781 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 781

 To amend section 2511 of title 18, United States Code, to revise the 
consent exception to the prohibition on the interception of oral, wire, 
     or electronic communications that is applicable to telephone 
                            communications.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 13, 1999

Mrs. Feinstein 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 revise the 
consent exception to the prohibition on the interception of oral, wire, 
     or electronic communications that is applicable to telephone 
                            communications.

    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 1999''.

SEC. 2. REVISION OF CONSENT EXCEPTION TO PROHIBITION ON INTERCEPTION OF 
              ORAL, WIRE, OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS APPLICABLE TO 
              TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS.

    Paragraph (d) of section 2511(2) of title 18, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ``unless such communication'' and all that 
follows and inserting ``unless--
            ``(i) such communication is intercepted for the purpose of 
        committing any criminal or tortious act in violation of the 
        Constutition or laws of the United States or of any State; or
            ``(ii) in the case of a telephone communication, any other 
        party to such communication has not given prior consent to such 
        interception.''.
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