[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 781 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 781

   To amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to exempt attorneys from the 
                    privacy provisions of that Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2003

  Mrs. Biggert (for herself, Mrs. Maloney, Ms. Baldwin, Mrs. Jones of 
Ohio, Mr. Shays, Mr. Watt, Mrs. Wilson of New Mexico, and Mr. Frank of 
Massachusetts) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to exempt attorneys from the 
                    privacy provisions of that Act.

    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 ``Privacy Protection Clarification 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION.

    Section 509(3) of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(E) Attorneys.--Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), 
                the term `financial institution' does not include 
                attorneys at law who are subject to, and in compliance 
                with, regulation of client confidentiality in the form 
                of rules of professional conduct promulgated either by 
                the court of highest appellate authority or by the 
                principal legislative body of any State of the United 
                States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the 
                United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the 
                Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin 
                Islands, or the Northern Mariana Islands.''.
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