[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2130 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2130

  To clarify the legal standard needed to use cellular telephones as 
                           tracking devices.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 16, 2005

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To clarify the legal standard needed to use cellular telephones as 
                           tracking devices.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CONTENTS OF WIRE OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION.

    Section 2510(8) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting before the semicolon the following: ``and contemporaneous, 
real-time, or prospective information regarding the physical location 
of a cellular telephone''.

SEC. 2. TRACKING DEVICES.

    Section 3117(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting before the period the following: ``, including a cellular 
telephone for which the government seeks contemporaneous, real-time, or 
prospective information regarding the physical location of such 
phone''.
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